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 between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Klamath County, Oregon, has about 70,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Klamath County Sheriff's Office, three 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 Klamath 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: Klamath County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Klamath County
The Klamath County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Klamath County. It reported 655 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists three cities in Klamath County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Klamath Falls, 22,174 residents: 957 arrests reported for 2025.
- Merrill, 868 residents: 1,171 arrests reported for 2025.
- Malin, 740 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2021.
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 Klamath County: the Klamath County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Klamath County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Klamath 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.
- Merrill: 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.
- Klamath Falls: 957 for 2025, 1,038 for 2024, 1,050 for 2023, 828 for 2022, 970 for 2021 and 1,040 for 2020.
- Klamath County Sheriff's Office: 655 for 2024 and 570 for 2021; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Malin: 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,869 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 2,214 in 2024 against 2,226 in 2023, down 0.5 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Klamath County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Klamath County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 100 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 152 beds, and it ran at 84 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 Klamath County Sheriff's Office at jailbooking.klamathcounty.org (page title: Web Jail Viewer), 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Oregon Department of Corrections lists its inmates at oregon.gov/doc/victim-services/pages/offender-search.aspx.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Klamath County
Whether someone was arrested in Klamath County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Klamath 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/klamath/pages/default.aspx, phone 541-883-5503); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at klamathcounty.org/281/District-Attorney, phone 541-883-5147).
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 Klamath 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 Klamath County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Klamath Falls, Merrill or Malin: 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 Klamath County Liquor Commission or the Klamath 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, 541-883-5147, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Klamath County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 541-883-5503.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at klamathcountyor.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Klamath County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Klamath County: Klamath Falls, Merrill and Malin. Chiloquin and Bonanza 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 Klamath County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Klamath County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Klamath Falls (22,174)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Klamath County each year?
Merrill reported 1,171 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Klamath County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 2,869 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Klamath County?
Look on the custody page of the Klamath County Sheriff's Office at jailbooking.klamathcounty.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Klamath County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Klamath County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Klamath 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 Klamath County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Klamath 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at klamathcountyor.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Klamath 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.