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 28, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in Cambria County, has about 18,000 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 Cambria 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: Johnstown public records, Cambria County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Johnstown
The FBI lists Johnstown with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Johnstown Police Department. It reported 461 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 Cambria County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 36 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Cambria County: the Cambria County District Attorney's Office, the Penn Cambria School District and the Greater Johnstown School District (other); the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and Mount Aloysius University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Prince Gallitzin, Forest Rangers's Gallitzin State Forest District 6, the Bureau of Forestry in Cambria County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Cambria County (state agency); the Cambria County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Johnstown Reports
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.
- Johnstown: 461 for 2025, 517 for 2024 and 836 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Johnstown's 461 arrests in 2025 were down 11 percent from 517 in 2024.
Across Cambria County, the 24 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,608 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Johnstown Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Johnstown 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 370 people, down from about 450 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 490 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Cambria County Sheriff's Office at cambriacountypa.gov/sheriff-office (page title: Sheriff Office | Cambria County, PA), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Johnstown
For Johnstown the place to look is the case index of the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas, kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Cambria County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns), phone 814-472-5440, belongs to a lower court, not to the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas.
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 Johnstown
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 agency that reports for Johnstown: its own records unit.
- An arrest by the Cambria County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at pacourts.us, phone 814-472-5440, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Cambria County guide covers every agency in the county: Cambria County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Johnstown each year?
Johnstown reported 461 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Johnstown booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cambria County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Johnstown?
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 Johnstown?
From the agency that made the arrest: the agency that reports for Johnstown for its own arrests, the Cambria 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.
Is this the official Johnstown 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.