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 2024. 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 1, 2026.
Clairton, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, has about 5,900 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 Allegheny 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: Clairton public records, Allegheny County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Clairton
The FBI lists Clairton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Clairton Police Department. It reported 265 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Allegheny County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 316 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Allegheny County: the Allegheny County Housing Authority, the Allegheny County Port Authority, the Gateway School District, the Brentwood Borough School District and four more (other); the University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University at McKeesport, Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University and six more (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Point, the Bureau of Forestry in Allegheny County and the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Allegheny County (state agency); the Allegheny County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Clairton 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.
- Clairton: 265 for 2024, 279 for 2023, 192 for 2022 and 272 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
Clairton's 265 arrests in 2024 were down 5 percent from 279 in 2023.
Across Allegheny County, the 76 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 19,019 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clairton Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clairton 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 2024 the jail held about 1,800 people, down from about 3,260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 3,183 beds, and it ran at 55 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 Allegheny County Sheriff's Office at sheriffalleghenycounty.com (page title: Home, Allegheny County Sheriff's Office), phone 412-350-4714, Monday through Friday, 8:00AM to 3:00PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Clairton
Whether someone was arrested in Clairton, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at alleghenycounty.us/Government/Court-Related/Public-Defender/Find-Yo...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at alleghenycounty.us/Government/Records/Open-Records/District-Attorney, phone 412-350-4401).
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 Clairton
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 Clairton police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofclairton.com/city-of-clairton-police-department (page title: City of Clairton Police Department | City of Clairton), phone (412) 233-8113, 551 Ravensburg Boulevard Clairton, PA 15025, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
- An arrest by the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 412-350-4714.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 412-350-4401, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at alleghenycounty.us.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at alleghenycounty.us (page title: Open Records | Allegheny County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Allegheny County guide covers every agency in the county: Allegheny County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clairton each year?
Clairton reported 265 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clairton?
Ask the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office at 412-350-4714; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriffalleghenycounty.com.
Where are people arrested in Clairton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clairton?
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 Clairton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clairton police for its own arrests, the Allegheny 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 alleghenycounty.us.
Is this the official Clairton 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.