Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. 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 September 26, 2026.
DuBois, Pennsylvania, in Clearfield County, has about 7,300 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 Clearfield County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it.
This guide covers who makes arrests, arrest counts, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: DuBois public records, Clearfield County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in DuBois
The FBI lists DuBois with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as DuBois Police Department. 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clearfield County: the Bureau of Forestry in Clearfield County, the State Park Rangers at Parker Dam, the State Park Rangers at Moshannon State Forest and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Clearfield County (state agency); Pennsylvania State University at Dubois (campus police); the Clearfield County State Police (state police).
Arrest Counts on File for DuBois
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For DuBois the counts on file are partial: DuBois has sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Across Clearfield County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 563 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in DuBois Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in DuBois 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 180 people, up from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 226 beds, and it ran at 78 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 sheriff's office at clearfieldcountypa.gov/216/Jail (page title: Jail | Clearfield County, PA), phone 814-765-7891, 115 Twenty First Street Clearfield, PA 16830, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at inmatelocator.cor.pa.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in DuBois
Whether someone was arrested in DuBois, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Clearfield County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at clearfieldcountypa.gov/176/Prothonotary-Clerk-of-Courts, phone 717-412-5300); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clearfieldcountypa.gov/165/District-Attorney, phone 814-765-2641).
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 DuBois
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 DuBois police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at duboispa.gov/government/right-to-know (page title: Right to Know | City of DuBois), phone 800-689-3535, 16 W. Scribner Avenue PO Box 408 DuBois, PA 15801, Monday - Friday 8AM - 4PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 814-765-2641, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clearfield County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at clearfieldcountypa.gov, phone 717-412-5300.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Clearfield County guide covers every agency in the county: Clearfield County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out if someone is in jail in DuBois?
Ask the sheriff's office at 814-765-7891; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at clearfieldcountypa.gov/216/Jail.
Where are people arrested in DuBois booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in DuBois?
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 DuBois?
From the agency that made the arrest: the sheriff's office or the city's police. Under the Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension.
Is this the official DuBois 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.