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 2025. 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 24, 2026.
Spanish Fork, Utah, in Utah County, has about 48,000 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 Utah 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: Spanish Fork public records, Utah County arrest records, Utah arrest records and Utah inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Spanish Fork
The FBI lists Spanish Fork with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Spanish Fork Police Department. It reported 1,010 arrests for 2025. 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 Utah County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,920 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Utah County: Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University (campus police); Utah County Major Crimes Task Force and Utah County Attorney, Investigations Division (other).
How Many Arrests Spanish Fork 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.
- Spanish Fork: 1,010 for 2025, 846 for 2024, 1,031 for 2023, 1,053 for 2022, 867 for 2021 and 965 for 2020.
Spanish Fork's 1,010 arrests in 2025 were up 19 percent from 846 in 2024.
Across Utah County, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 18,106 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Spanish Fork Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Spanish Fork 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 490 people, down from about 600 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,172 beds, and it ran at 42 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 Utah County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.utahcounty.gov/corrections/inmateSearch (page title: Utah County Sheriff's Office Inmate Search), phone 801-851-4000, 3075 North Main Spanish Fork, UT 84660, 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 Spanish Fork
An arrest in Spanish Fork can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Utah County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Utah County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at utcourts.gov/en/court-records-publications/records/xchange.html); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at atty.utahcounty.gov).
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 Spanish Fork
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 agency that reports for Spanish Fork: its own records unit.
- An arrest by the Utah County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 801-851-4000.
- 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 Utah County, through the court records page at utcourts.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at utah-county-ut.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Utah County guide covers every agency in the county: Utah County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Spanish Fork each year?
Spanish Fork reported 1,010 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Spanish Fork?
Look on the custody page of the Utah County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.utahcounty.gov, or call 801-851-4000. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Spanish Fork booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Utah County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Spanish Fork?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Utah 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 Spanish Fork?
From the agency that made the arrest: the agency that reports for Spanish Fork for its own arrests, the Utah 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 utah-county-ut.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Spanish Fork 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.