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 between September 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
St. George, Utah, in Washington County, has about 106,000 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 Washington 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: St. George public records, Washington County arrest records, Utah arrest records and Utah inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in St. George
The FBI lists St. George with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as St. George Police Department. It reported 4,080 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 Washington County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 598 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Washington County: Utah Tech University (campus police).
How Many Arrests St. George 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.
- St. George: 4,080 for 2025, 4,044 for 2024, 3,000 for 2023, 3,592 for 2022, 3,445 for 2021 and 2,858 for 2020.
St. George's 4,080 arrests in 2025 were up 0.9 percent from 4,044 in 2024.
Through July 2026, St. George reported 1,914 arrests, against 2,332 in the same months of 2025.
Across Washington County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,404 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. George Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in St. George 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 400 people, down from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 599 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Washington 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 October 4, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Utah Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at corrections.utah.gov/inmate-services/offender-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in St. George
Whether someone was arrested in St. George, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Washington County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Washington County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at washco.utah.gov/departments/justice-court/court-updates-and-informa..., phone (435) 301-7480); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at washco.utah.gov/departments/attorney, phone (435) 301-7100).
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 St. George
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 St. George police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at sgcityutah.gov/departments/police_department/records_division.php (page title: St. George, UT | Records Division), phone 435-627-4301, 265 N 200 E St. George, UT 84770, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Washington 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, (435) 301-7100, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Washington County, through the court records page at washco.utah.gov, phone (435) 301-7480.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at washco.utah.gov (page title: GRAMA Records Request | Washington County of Utah).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Washington County guide covers every agency in the county: Washington County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. George each year?
St. George reported 4,080 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in St. George?
Look on the custody page of the Washington 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 St. George booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Washington County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in St. George?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Washington 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 St. George?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. George police for its own arrests, the Washington 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 washco.utah.gov.
Is this the official St. George 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.