Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. 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.
San Juan County, Utah, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the San Juan County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 San Juan County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it.
This guide covers who makes arrests, arrest counts, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: San Juan County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in San Juan County
The San Juan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for San Juan County. It reported 221 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in San Juan County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Blanding, 3,216 residents: 139 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.
Arrest Counts on File for San Juan County
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For San Juan County the counts on file are partial: Blanding and San Juan County Sheriff's Office have sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Booking: Where People Arrested in San Juan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in San Juan 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 88 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 116 beds, and it ran at 76 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 San Juan County
For San Juan County the place to look is the case index of the District Court for San Juan County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at utcourts.gov/en/self-help/services/juryroom/contact/san-juan.html, phone 435-587-2122).
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 San Juan 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 San Juan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Blanding: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for San Juan County, through the court records page at utcourts.gov, phone 435-587-2122.
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in San Juan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in San Juan County: Blanding. Monticello and Bluff 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 San Juan County.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are people arrested in San Juan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the San Juan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in San Juan County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for San Juan 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 San Juan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the San Juan 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 San Juan 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.