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 2023. 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 25, 2026.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County, has about 28,000 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 Lycoming 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: Williamsport public records, Lycoming County arrest records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Williamsport
The FBI lists Williamsport with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Williamsport Police Department. It reported 1,639 arrests for 2023, 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 Lycoming County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lycoming County: the State Park Rangers at Little Pine, the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Lycoming County, the Bureau of Forestry in Lycoming County and Forest Rangers's Tiadaghton State Forest District 12 (state agency); Pennsylvania College of Technology (campus police); the Lycoming County State Police (state police); the South Williamsport Area School District and the Loyalsock Township School District (other).
How Many Arrests Williamsport 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.
- Williamsport: 1,639 for 2023 and 1,847 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Across Lycoming County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 1,684 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Williamsport Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Williamsport 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, down from about 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 256 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Lycoming County Sheriff's Office at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/sheriff/gov... (page title: Lycoming County, PA), phone 570-327-2280, 48 West Third Street, 3rd floor, Williamsport PA 17701, MON 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, 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 Williamsport
An arrest in Williamsport can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/prothonotar...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lycomingcountypa.gov/government/row_officers/government/district_at..., phone 570-327-2456).
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 Williamsport
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 Williamsport police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofwilliamsport.org/government/right-to-know/requesting-records (page title: Requesting Records | City of Williamsport), phone (570) 327-7500, 100 West 3rd Street Williamsport, PA 17701, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-327-2280.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-327-2456, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at lycomingcountypa.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov (page title: Lycoming County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Lycoming County guide covers every agency in the county: Lycoming County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Williamsport each year?
Williamsport reported 1,639 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Williamsport?
Ask the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office at 570-327-2280; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lycomingcountypa.gov.
Where are people arrested in Williamsport booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lycoming County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Williamsport?
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 Williamsport?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Williamsport police for its own arrests, the Lycoming 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 lycomingcountypa.gov.
Is this the official Williamsport 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.