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.
Yamhill County, Oregon, has about 111,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Yamhill 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: Yamhill County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Yamhill County
The Yamhill County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yamhill County. It reported 798 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Yamhill County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- McMinnville, 35,255 residents: 1,275 arrests reported for 2025.
- Newberg, 27,136 residents: 631 arrests reported for 2025.
- Carlton, 2,273 residents: 32 arrests reported for 2025.
- Yamhill, 1,215 residents: 24 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 Gaston Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Yamhill County, so its arrests are not broken out for Yamhill County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Yamhill County: the Yamhill County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Yamhill County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Yamhill 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.
- McMinnville: 1,275 for 2025, 1,288 for 2024, 1,155 for 2023, 1,160 for 2022, 1,139 for 2021 and 1,272 for 2020.
- Yamhill County Sheriff's Office: 798 for 2025, 850 for 2024, 788 for 2023, 875 for 2022, 843 for 2021 and 734 for 2020.
- Newberg: 631 for 2025, 633 for 2024, 581 for 2023, 619 for 2022, 483 for 2021 and 636 for 2020.
- Carlton: 32 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 47 for 2023, 32 for 2022, 32 for 2021 and 38 for 2020.
- Yamhill: 24 for 2024, 19 for 2023, 18 for 2022, 22 for 2020 and 32 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,736 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,736 in 2025 against 2,792 in 2024, down 2 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,256 arrests, against 1,360 in the same months of 2025.
Yamhill reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Yamhill County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Yamhill 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 110 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 245 beds, and it ran at 44 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office at co.yamhill.or.us/482/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Yamhill County, OR), phone 503-434-7506, 535 NE 5th Street Room 143 McMinnville, OR 97128, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Yamhill County
For Yamhill County the place to look is the case index of the Yamhill 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/yamhill/records/pages/default.aspx).
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 Yamhill 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 Yamhill County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 503-434-7506.
- An arrest in McMinnville, Newberg, Carlton or Yamhill: 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 Yamhill County Liquor Commission or the Yamhill County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yamhill County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at yamhillcounty.gov/710/Record-Requests (page title: Record Requests | Yamhill County, OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Yamhill County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the ten cities in Yamhill County: McMinnville, Newberg, Carlton and Yamhill. Sheridan, Lafayette, Dundee, Dayton, Willamina and Amity 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 Yamhill County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Yamhill County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- McMinnville (35,255)
- Newberg (27,136)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Yamhill County each year?
McMinnville reported 1,275 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,736 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Yamhill County?
Ask the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office at 503-434-7506; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.yamhill.or.us/482/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Yamhill County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Yamhill 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 Yamhill County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Yamhill 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 yamhillcounty.gov/710/Record-Requests.
Is this the official Yamhill 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.