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.
Tillamook County, Oregon, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office, two 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 Tillamook 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: Tillamook County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tillamook County
The Tillamook County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tillamook County. It reported 87 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Tillamook County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Tillamook, 5,157 residents: 124 arrests reported for 2024.
- Manzanita, 639 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Tillamook County: the Tillamook County State Police (state police); the Tillamook County Liquor Commission (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tillamook County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Tillamook County Sheriff's Office: 87 for 2025, 197 for 2024, 196 for 2023, 250 for 2022, 213 for 2021 and 236 for 2020.
- Tillamook: 124 for 2024, 161 for 2023, 168 for 2022 and 202 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Manzanita: 16 for 2024 and 33 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 337 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 321 in 2024 against 357 in 2023, down 10 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tillamook County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tillamook 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 36 people, down from about 71 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 66 beds, and it ran at 108 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 Tillamook County Sheriff's Office at tillamookcounty.gov/sheriff/page/booking-process (page title: Booking Process | Tillamook County OR), phone 503-815-1911, 5995 Long Prairie Rd. Tillamook, OR 97141, Monday - Friday 8am-Noon and 12:30pm-5pm, 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 Tillamook County
An arrest in Tillamook County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Tillamook 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/tillamook/records/pages/default.aspx, phone 503-842-2596); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tillamookcounty.gov/district-attorney).
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 Tillamook County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Tillamook County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 503-815-1911.
- An arrest in Tillamook or Manzanita: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Tillamook County State Police or the Tillamook County Liquor Commission: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Tillamook County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 503-842-2596.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tillamookcounty.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | Tillamook County OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Tillamook County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the seven cities in Tillamook County: Tillamook and Manzanita. Rockaway Beach, Bay City, Garibaldi, Wheeler and Nehalem 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 Tillamook County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tillamook County each year?
The Tillamook County Sheriff's Office reported 87 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Tillamook County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 337 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tillamook County?
Look on the custody page of the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office at tillamookcounty.gov, or call 503-815-1911. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Tillamook County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tillamook 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 Tillamook County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tillamook 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 tillamookcounty.gov.
Is this the official Tillamook 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.