SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Salt Lake County, Utah, has about 1.2 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office, one other county agency, 14 city agencies and four 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 Salt Lake 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: Salt Lake County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Salt Lake County

The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Salt Lake County. It reported 3,153 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.

The Unified Police Department also reports arrests to the FBI as another county agency of Salt Lake County.

The FBI lists 14 cities in Salt Lake County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Salt Lake City, 217,783 residents: 23,196 arrests reported for 2025.
  • West Valley City, 138,144 residents: 4,173 arrests reported for 2025.
  • West Jordan, 116,688 residents: 1,832 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Sandy, 92,840 residents: 2,515 arrests reported for 2025.
  • South Jordan, 86,156 residents: 1,021 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Herriman, 62,352 residents: 391 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Taylorsville, 57,819 residents: 1,634 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Murray, 50,817 residents: 1,239 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Draper, 50,166 residents: 506 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Riverton, 46,680 residents: 359 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cottonwood Heights, 32,437 residents: 946 arrests reported for 2025.
  • South Salt Lake, 26,561 residents: 1,480 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 Salt Lake County: the University of Utah (campus police); the Granite School District, the Unified Fire Authority Investigations Bureau and the Utah Transit Authority (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Salt Lake 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.

  • Salt Lake City: 23,196 for 2025, 17,895 for 2024, 14,943 for 2023, 12,149 for 2022, 10,419 for 2021 and 9,490 for 2020.
  • West Valley City: 4,173 for 2025, 4,059 for 2024, 3,889 for 2023, 4,161 for 2022, 3,801 for 2021 and 4,631 for 2020.
  • Unified Police Department: 2,730 for 2025.
  • Sandy: 2,515 for 2025, 2,445 for 2024, 2,537 for 2023, 3,027 for 2022, 2,962 for 2021 and 2,779 for 2020.
  • West Jordan: 1,832 for 2025, 2,088 for 2024, 2,010 for 2023, 1,990 for 2022, 1,779 for 2021 and 2,585 for 2020.
  • Taylorsville: 1,634 for 2025, 1,421 for 2024, 1,181 for 2023 and 1,332 for 2022.
  • South Salt Lake: 1,480 for 2025, 1,691 for 2024, 1,595 for 2023, 1,283 for 2022, 2,039 for 2021 and 2,265 for 2020.
  • Murray: 1,239 for 2025, 1,175 for 2024, 1,315 for 2023, 1,546 for 2022, 1,193 for 2021 and 1,528 for 2020.
  • South Jordan: 1,021 for 2025, 1,086 for 2024, 992 for 2023, 1,021 for 2022, 758 for 2021 and 1,089 for 2020.
  • Cottonwood Heights: 946 for 2025, 1,006 for 2024, 918 for 2023, 666 for 2022, 1,365 for 2021 and 1,072 for 2020.
  • Bluffdale: 600 for 2025, 481 for 2024, 490 for 2023, 473 for 2022, 421 for 2021 and 365 for 2020.
  • Draper: 506 for 2025, 528 for 2024, 540 for 2023, 453 for 2022, 498 for 2021 and 472 for 2020.

Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 42,622 arrests that year. The 13 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 39,892 in 2025 against 34,429 in 2024, up 16 percent.

Through July 2026, the 12 agencies with every month so far on file reported 21,762 arrests, against 22,124 in the same months of 2025.

Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and Alta reported only part of 2025 (11 months and 7 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Salt Lake County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Salt Lake 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 2023 the jail held about 1,910 people, down from about 2,150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 2,455 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Salt Lake 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 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 Salt Lake County

Whether someone was arrested in Salt Lake County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Salt Lake County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at saltlakecounty.gov/district-attorney/how-to-find-a-case, phone 801-238-7300); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at saltlakecounty.gov/district-attorney, phone (385) 468-7700).

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 Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 801-851-4000.
  • An arrest in Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy, South Jordan, Herriman or another of the cities listed above: 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 the University of Utah, the Granite School District or the Unified Fire Authority Investigations Bureau: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (385) 468-7700, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Salt Lake County, through the court records page at saltlakecounty.gov, phone 801-238-7300.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at saltlakecounty.gov (page title: Public Records Requests (GRAMA) | Records Management | Salt Lake County).
  • Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.

Cities in Salt Lake County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 14 of the 23 cities in Salt Lake County: the twelve named above and Bluffdale and Alta. Millcreek, Kearns metro township, Midvale, Magna metro township, Holladay, White City metro township, Emigration Canyon metro township, Copperton metro township and Brighton 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 Salt Lake County.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Salt Lake County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Salt Lake County each year?

Salt Lake City reported 23,196 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 42,622 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Salt Lake County?

Look on the custody page of the Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Salt Lake County?

The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Salt Lake 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 saltlakecounty.gov.

Is this the official Salt Lake 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.