Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in Franklin County, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Franklin County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Chambersburg public records, Franklin County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Chambersburg
The FBI lists Chambersburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Chambersburg Police Department. It reported 617 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 7 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Franklin County: the Bureau of Forestry in Franklin County, the State Park Rangers at Caledonia, Forest Rangers's Michaux State Forest District 1 and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Franklin County (state agency); Pennsylvania State University at Mont Alto (campus police); Franklin County Drug Task Force, the Greencastle-Antrim School District and the Tuscarora School District (other); the Franklin County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Chambersburg Reports
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.
- Chambersburg: 617 for 2025, 689 for 2024, 1,185 for 2020 and 1,194 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Chambersburg's 617 arrests in 2025 were down 10 percent from 689 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Chambersburg reported 424 arrests, against 362 in the same months of 2025.
Across Franklin County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,244 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chambersburg Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chambersburg 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 240 people, down from about 430 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 458 beds, and it ran at 53 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 Franklin County Sheriff's Office at franklincountypa.gov/departments/jail (page title: Jail -Franklin County), phone 717-264-9513, 1804 Opportunity Avenue Chambersburg, PA 17201, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections lists its inmates at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Chambersburg
Whether someone was arrested in Chambersburg, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountypa.gov/departments/clerk-of-courts, phone 717-261-3805); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at franklincountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 717-261-3827).
Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
Pennsylvania is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22 a search, through the Pennsylvania 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 Chambersburg
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 Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Chambersburg police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at chambersburgpa.gov/pdf/BOC%20Act%2022%20Policy%20(4890-6861-2383.1)... (page title: Law Enforcement Audio & Video Recording Request), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 717-264-9513.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 717-261-3827, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at franklincountypa.gov, phone 717-261-3805.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountypa.gov (page title: Open Records Information -Franklin County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Franklin County guide covers every agency in the county: Franklin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chambersburg each year?
Chambersburg reported 617 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chambersburg?
Ask the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at 717-264-9513; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountypa.gov/departments/jail.
Where are people arrested in Chambersburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chambersburg?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Right-to-Know Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Chambersburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chambersburg police for its own arrests, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountypa.gov.
Is this the official Chambersburg website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.