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 1, 2026.
Summit County, Utah, has about 43,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Summit County Sheriff's Office and two city 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 Summit 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: Summit County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Summit County
The Summit County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Summit County. It reported 584 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Park City, 8,292 residents: 214 arrests reported for 2024.
- Kamas, 2,145 residents: 1,182 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Summit 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.
- Kamas: 1,182 for 2025, 1,160 for 2024, 1,181 for 2023, 1,185 for 2022, 1,140 for 2021 and 1,149 for 2020.
- Summit County Sheriff's Office: 584 for 2025, 620 for 2024, 584 for 2023, 506 for 2022, 380 for 2021 and 630 for 2020.
- Park City: 214 for 2024, 227 for 2023, 267 for 2022, 270 for 2021, 255 for 2020 and 362 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,766 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,766 in 2025 against 1,780 in 2024, down 0.8 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,023 arrests, against 1,016 in the same months of 2025.
Park City reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Summit County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Summit 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 68 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 100 beds, and it ran at 68 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 Summit County Sheriff's Office at summitcountysheriff.org/DocumentCenter/View/26286/Inmates12292025 (page title: Summit County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 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 Summit County
Whether someone was arrested in Summit County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Summit County, kept by the clerk of court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at summitcountyutah.gov/970/Staff, phone 435-336-3206).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at summitcountyutah.gov/228/Justice-Court (page title: Justice Court | Summit County, Utah Official Court Information | Summit County, UT), phone 435-615-3800, belongs to a lower court, not to the District Court for Summit County.
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 Summit 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 Summit County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Park City or Kamas: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 435-336-3206, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the District Court for Summit County it is kept by the clerk of court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at summitcountyutah.gov/228/Justice-Court, phone 435-615-3800, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at summitcountyut.nextrequest.com (page title: Submit a RequestNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Summit County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the six cities in Summit County: Park City and Kamas. Francis, Oakley, Coalville and Henefer 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 Summit County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Summit County each year?
Kamas reported 1,182 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,766 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Summit County?
Ask the Summit County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at summitcountysheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Summit County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Summit County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Summit County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Summit 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 Summit County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Summit 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 summitcountyut.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Summit 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.