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 2024. 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 25, 2026.
Cedar City, Utah, in Iron County, has about 41,000 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Iron County. 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: Cedar City public records, Iron County arrest records, Utah arrest records and Utah inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cedar City
The FBI lists Cedar City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cedar City Police Department. It reported 884 arrests for 2024, 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 Iron County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 424 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Iron County: Southern Utah University (campus police); Iron, Garfield, Beaver Task Force (other).
How Many Arrests Cedar City 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.
- Cedar City: 884 for 2024, 983 for 2023 and 1,393 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Cedar City's 884 arrests in 2024 were down 10 percent from 983 in 2023.
Across Iron County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 463 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cedar City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cedar City 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 2021 the jail held about 140 people, up from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 345 beds, and it ran at 39 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Iron County Sheriff's Office at ironsheriffut.gov/jail/inmate-bookings (page title: Iron County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Utah Department of Corrections lists its inmates at corrections.utah.gov/inmate-services/offender-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cedar City
Whether someone was arrested in Cedar City, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Iron County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Iron County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ironcountyut.gov/justice-court, phone 435-865-5335); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ironcountyut.gov/attorney/prosecution-policy).
Statewide, MyCase and Xchange is free case lookup for parties through MyCase; the public Xchange search is by subscription.
Utah does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Cedar City
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited, and it may charge copying and staff time after the first quarter hour.
- An arrest by the Cedar City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cedarcityut.gov/2427/Records-and-Police-Support (page title: Records and Police Support | Cedar City, UT), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Iron County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Iron County, through the court records page at ironcountyut.gov/justice-court, phone 435-865-5335.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ironcountyut.gov (page title: Iron County).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Iron County guide covers every agency in the county: Iron County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cedar City each year?
Cedar City reported 884 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cedar City?
Look on the custody page of the Iron County Sheriff's Office at ironsheriffut.gov/jail/inmate-bookings. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Cedar City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Iron County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cedar City?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Iron County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Government Records Access and Management Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cedar City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cedar City police for its own arrests, the Iron County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ironcountyut.gov.
Is this the official Cedar City 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.