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 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Saluda County, South Carolina, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Saluda County Sheriff's Office, two 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 Solicitor files charges, a case in the Saluda County Circuit Court. 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: Saluda County public records, South Carolina arrest records, South Carolina inmate search and South Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Saluda County
The Saluda County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Saluda County. It reported 125 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Saluda County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Saluda, 3,061 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ridge Spring, 588 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Batesburg-Leesville Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Saluda County, so its arrests are not broken out for Saluda County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Saluda County: the Saluda County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control at Saluda, Saluda County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Saluda County Forestry Commission and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Saluda County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Saluda County
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.
- Saluda County Sheriff's Office: 125 for 2025, 202 for 2024, 192 for 2023, 303 for 2022, 362 for 2021 and 196 for 2020.
- Saluda: 46 for 2025, 84 for 2024, 76 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 111 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Ridge Spring: 6 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 20 for 2022, 17 for 2021, 14 for 2020 and 4 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 171 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 171 in 2025 against 286 in 2024, down 40 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 92 arrests, against 105 in the same months of 2025.
Ridge Spring reported only part of 2025 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Saluda County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Saluda 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 2019 the jail held about 40 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 42 beds, and it ran at 95 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 Saluda County Sheriff's Office at saludacounty.sc.gov/departments/detention-center (page title: Detention Center | Saluda County), phone 864-445-0286, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the South Carolina Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Saluda County
For Saluda County the place to look is the case index of the Saluda County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at saludacounty.sc.gov/departments/clerk-court, phone 864-445-4500).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. 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 Saluda 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 South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Saluda County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 864-445-0286.
- An arrest in Saluda or Ridge Spring: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Saluda County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control at Saluda or Saluda County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Saluda County Circuit Court, through the court records page at saludacounty.sc.gov/departments/clerk-court, phone 864-445-4500.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Saluda County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Saluda County: Saluda and Ridge Spring. Ward has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Saluda County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Saluda County each year?
The Saluda County Sheriff's Office reported 125 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 171 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Saluda County?
Ask the Saluda County Sheriff's Office at 864-445-0286; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at saludacounty.sc.gov.
Where are people arrested in Saluda County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saluda County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Saluda County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Saluda County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Saluda County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old.
Is this the official Saluda 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.