Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Jackson County, Oregon, has about 221,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, nine city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Jackson County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Jackson County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Jackson County
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Jackson County. It reported 3,508 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Jackson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Medford, 86,301 residents: 10,822 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ashland, 20,935 residents: 776 arrests reported for 2025.
- Central Point, 19,128 residents: 517 arrests reported for 2025.
- Eagle Point, 9,811 residents: 349 arrests reported for 2025.
- Talent, 6,306 residents: 186 arrests reported for 2025.
- Phoenix, 4,570 residents: 129 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jacksonville, 2,945 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2024.
- Rogue River, 2,337 residents: 138 arrests reported for 2025.
- Butte Falls, 433 residents: 1,171 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jackson County: the Jackson County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Jackson County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Jackson County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Medford: 10,822 for 2025, 9,761 for 2024, 5,353 for 2023, 4,699 for 2022, 3,955 for 2021 and 5,626 for 2020.
- Jackson County Sheriff's Office: 3,508 for 2025, 2,950 for 2024, 1,525 for 2023, 1,428 for 2022, 1,133 for 2021 and 1,368 for 2020.
- Butte Falls: 1,171 for 2025, 1,176 for 2024, 1,176 for 2023, 1,180 for 2022, 1,164 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Ashland: 776 for 2025, 848 for 2024, 547 for 2023, 524 for 2022, 523 for 2021 and 903 for 2020.
- Central Point: 517 for 2025, 387 for 2024, 322 for 2023, 364 for 2022, 442 for 2021 and 531 for 2020.
- Eagle Point: 349 for 2025, 372 for 2024, 322 for 2023, 270 for 2022, 175 for 2021 and 213 for 2020.
- Talent: 186 for 2025, 127 for 2024, 76 for 2021 and 236 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Rogue River: 138 for 2025, 51 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 110 for 2020 and 134 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Phoenix: 129 for 2025, 192 for 2024, 103 for 2023, 104 for 2022, 96 for 2021 and 140 for 2020.
- Jacksonville: 22 for 2024, 12 for 2023, 18 for 2022, 43 for 2021, 18 for 2020 and 22 for 2019.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,596 arrests that year. The eight of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 17,458 in 2025 against 15,813 in 2024, up 10 percent.
Through August 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 10,584 arrests, against 10,689 in the same months of 2025.
Jacksonville reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jackson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Jackson County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 330 people, down from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 346 beds, and it ran at 97 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Jackson County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Oregon Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at oregon.gov/doc/victim-services/pages/offender-search.aspx.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Jackson County
Whether someone was arrested in Jackson County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jackson County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.oregon.gov/courts/jackson/records/pages/default.aspx, phone 541-776-7171); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at jacksoncountyor.gov/departments/district_attorney/index.php, phone 541-774-8181).
Statewide, Oregon eCourt Case Information is the Oregon Judicial Department's online case search, free for basic case information.
Oregon is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: an Open Record Request returns anyone's Oregon conviction record by name, and the subject is told who asked, for $10 a search, through the Oregon State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Jackson County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Oregon Public Records Law the agency must answer within 15 business days where practicable, after acknowledging the request within 5, and it may charge the actual cost of making the record available.
- An arrest by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Talent, Phoenix or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Jackson County Liquor Commission or the Jackson County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 541-774-8181, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jackson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 541-776-7171.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Jackson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 11 cities in Jackson County: Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Talent, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Rogue River and Butte Falls. Shady Cove and Gold Hill have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Jackson County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Jackson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Ashland (20,935)
- Central Point (19,128)
- Eagle Point (9,811)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jackson County each year?
Medford reported 10,822 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 17,596 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Jackson County?
Look on the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Jackson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Jackson County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oregon State Police: an Open Record Request returns anyone's Oregon conviction record by name, and the subject is told who asked, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oregon Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Jackson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jackson County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Oregon Public Records Law the answer is due within 15 business days where practicable, after acknowledging the request within 5.
Is this the official Jackson County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.