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 between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Clinton County, Pennsylvania, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by five city agencies and six 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 Clinton 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: Clinton County public records, Pennsylvania arrest records, Pennsylvania inmate search and Pennsylvania criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clinton County
The Sheriff | Clinton County, PA is the county law enforcement agency of Clinton County.
The FBI lists three cities in Clinton County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Lock Haven, 8,531 residents: 257 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mill Hall, 1,467 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Renovo, 1,051 residents: 54 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clinton County: Lock Haven University (campus police); the State Park Rangers at Kettle Creek, Forest Rangers's Sproul State Forest District 10, the Bureau of Forestry in Clinton County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Clinton County (state agency); the Clinton County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Clinton 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.
- Lock Haven: 257 for 2025, 264 for 2024, 281 for 2023 and 173 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Renovo: 54 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 43 for 2023, 2 for 2022 and 51 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Pine Creek Township: 14 for 2025, 76 for 2024, 108 for 2020 and 96 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Mill Hall: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2023.
- Woodward Township: 8 for 2024 and 4 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 325 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 325 in 2025 against 405 in 2024, down 20 percent.
Woodward Township reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clinton County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Clinton County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 150 people, down from about 220 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 298 beds, and it ran at 51 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 | Clinton County, PA at clintoncountypa.gov/government/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Clinton County, PA), phone 570-893-4070, 230 East Water Street Lock Haven, PA 17745, Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri) 8:00am - 12:30pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Clinton County
Whether someone was arrested in Clinton County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: UJS Web Portal, the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clintoncountypa.gov/government/district-attorney, phone 570-893-4141).
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 Clinton 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 Sheriff | Clinton County, PA: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 570-893-4070.
- An arrest in Lock Haven, Mill Hall or Renovo: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Lock Haven University, the State Park Rangers at Kettle Creek or Forest Rangers's Sproul State Forest District 10: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 570-893-4141, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Clinton County guides go further: police reports and property records.
Cities in Clinton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the eight cities in Clinton County: Lock Haven, Mill Hall and Renovo. Avis, Flemington, Beech Creek, Loganton and South Renovo have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Woodward Township Police Department and the Pine Creek Township Police Department as city agencies in Clinton County; Woodward Township and Pine Creek Township are 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 Clinton County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Clinton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lock Haven (8,531)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clinton County each year?
Lock Haven reported 257 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 325 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clinton County?
Ask the Sheriff | Clinton County, PA at 570-893-4070; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at clintoncountypa.gov/government/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Clinton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sheriff | Clinton County, PA; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clinton 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 Clinton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sheriff | Clinton County, PA 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.
Is this the official Clinton 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.