Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Clarion County, Pennsylvania, has about 37,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clarion County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and seven campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Clarion County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Clarion County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clarion County
The Clarion County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clarion County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Clarion County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Clarion, 4,141 residents: 205 arrests reported for 2024.
- Knox, 1,074 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Emlenton Borough Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Clarion County, so its arrests are not broken out for Clarion County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clarion County: the Clarion County State Police (state police); the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Clarion County, the Bureau of Forestry in Clarion County, Forest Rangers's Clear Creek State Forest District 8 and the State Park Rangers at Cook Forest (state agency); Clarion University (campus police); County Detective in Clarion County (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Clarion County
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.
- Southern Clarion County Regional: 88 for 2025, 99 for 2024 and 77 for 2023.
- Knox: 7 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 24 for 2020 and 31 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Clarion County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025 and 0 for 2024.
- Clarion: 205 for 2024.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 95 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 95 in 2025 against 117 in 2024, down 19 percent.
Clarion reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clarion County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clarion County 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 76 people, down from about 87 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 126 beds, and it ran at 60 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 Clarion County Sheriff's Office at co.clarion.pa.us/government/departments/corrections/index.php (page title: Clarion County, PA), phone (814) 226-9615, 309 Amsler Drive, Ste. 2 Shippenville, PA 16254, 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 Clarion County
Whether someone was arrested in Clarion County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Clarion County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.clarion.pa.us/government/courts/court_of_common_pleas/index.php, phone (814) 226-9351); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.clarion.pa.us/government/elected_officials/district_attorney.php, phone (814) 226-4423).
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 Clarion County
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 Clarion County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (814) 226-9615.
- An arrest in Clarion or Knox: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Clarion County State Police, the Office of Attorney General Region 3 in Clarion County or the Bureau of Forestry in Clarion County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (814) 226-4423, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clarion County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at co.clarion.pa.us, phone (814) 226-9351.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.clarion.pa.us (page title: Clarion County, PA).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Clarion County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the 12 cities in Clarion County: Clarion and Knox. New Bethlehem, Rimersburg, East Brady, Sligo, Strattanville, Hawthorn, Shippenville, St. Petersburg, Foxburg and Callensburg have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Southern Clarion County Regional Police Department as a city agency in Clarion County; Southern Clarion County Regional is not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Clarion County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clarion County each year?
Southern Clarion County Regional reported 88 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 95 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clarion County?
Ask the Clarion County Sheriff's Office at (814) 226-9615; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.clarion.pa.us.
Where are people arrested in Clarion County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clarion County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clarion County?
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 Clarion County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clarion County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 co.clarion.pa.us.
Is this the official Clarion County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.