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.
Emery County, Utah, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Emery County Sheriff's Office. 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Emery County. 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: Emery County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Emery County
The Emery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Emery County. It reported 215 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Emery County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Emery County Sheriff's Office: 215 for 2025, 201 for 2024 and 194 for 2023.
The Emery County Sheriff's Office's 215 arrests in 2025 were up 7 percent from 201 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Emery County Sheriff's Office reported 48 arrests, against 47 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Emery County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Emery 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 18 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 88 beds, and it ran at 20 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 Emery County Sheriff's Office at emery.utah.gov/home/offices/sheriff (page title: Emery County Sheriff’s Office), phone (877) 410-0007, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Emery County
Whether someone was arrested in Emery County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Emery County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at axaemarchives.utah.gov/solr/axaem/Subjects); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at emery.utah.gov/home/offices/attorney, phone 801-328-8891).
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 Emery County
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 Emery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (877) 410-0007.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 801-328-8891, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Emery County, through the court records page at axaemarchives.utah.gov/solr/axaem/Subjects.
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Emery County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Emery County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the District Court for Emery County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Emery County each year?
The Emery County Sheriff's Office reported 215 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Emery County?
Ask the Emery County Sheriff's Office at (877) 410-0007; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at emery.utah.gov/home/offices/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Emery County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Emery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Emery County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Emery 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 Emery County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Emery County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited.
Is this the official Emery 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.