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 on September 24, 2026.
Iron County, Utah, has about 66,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Iron County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. 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 Iron 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: Iron County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Iron County
The Iron County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Iron County. It reported 424 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Iron County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Cedar City, 40,885 residents: 884 arrests reported for 2024.
- Enoch, 8,664 residents: 34 arrests reported for 2025.
- Parowan, 3,283 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2023.
- Brian Head, 164 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
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 Each Agency Reports in Iron County
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.
- Iron County Sheriff's Office: 424 for 2025, 287 for 2024, 367 for 2023, 400 for 2022, 414 for 2021 and 411 for 2020.
- Enoch: 34 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 40 for 2023, 41 for 2022, 25 for 2021 and 48 for 2020.
- Brian Head: 5 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 6 for 2021 and 8 for 2020.
- Cedar City: 884 for 2024, 983 for 2023 and 1,393 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Parowan: 40 for 2023, 22 for 2022, 26 for 2021 and 51 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 463 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 463 in 2025 against 317 in 2024, up 46 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 268 arrests, against 254 in the same months of 2025.
Cedar City and Parowan reported only part of 2025 (9 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Iron County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Iron 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 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 Iron County
Whether someone was arrested in Iron County, 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 Iron 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 Iron County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cedar City, Enoch, Parowan or Brian Head: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Southern Utah University or Iron, Garfield, Beaver Task Force: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Iron County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Iron County: Cedar City, Enoch, Parowan and Brian Head. Paragonah and Kanarraville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
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 Iron County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Iron County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Cedar City (40,885)
- Enoch (8,664)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Iron County each year?
The Iron County Sheriff's Office reported 424 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 463 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Iron County?
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 Iron County 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 Iron County?
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 Iron County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Iron 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ironcountyut.gov.
Is this the official Iron 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.