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 October 4, 2026.
Garfield County, Utah, has about 5,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Garfield 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 Garfield 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: Garfield County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Garfield County
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Garfield County. It reported 37 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Garfield County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Garfield County Sheriff's Office: 37 for 2025, 44 for 2024, 45 for 2023, 48 for 2022 and 70 for 2021.
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office's 37 arrests in 2025 were down 16 percent from 44 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Garfield County Sheriff's Office reported 21 arrests, against 22 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Garfield County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Garfield County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 100 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 101 beds, and it ran at 104 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 Garfield County Sheriff's Office at gcutsheriff.com (page title: Garfield County Sheriff | Panguitch, Utah | Garfield County Jail in Panguitch, Utah), phone 435-676-2678, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Garfield County
An arrest in Garfield County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the District Court for Garfield County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at garfield.utah.gov/Departments/Courts, phone 435-676-1104); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at garfield.utah.gov/Departments/Attorney, phone 435-676-1103).
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 Garfield 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 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 Garfield County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 435-676-2678.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 435-676-1103, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Garfield County, through the court records page at garfield.utah.gov/Departments/Courts, phone 435-676-1104.
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Garfield County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Garfield 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 Garfield County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Garfield County each year?
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office reported 37 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Garfield County?
Ask the Garfield County Sheriff's Office at 435-676-2678; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gcutsheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Garfield County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Garfield County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Garfield 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 Garfield County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Garfield 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 Garfield 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.