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

Utah County, Utah, has about 747,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Utah County Sheriff's Office, 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 Utah 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: Utah County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Utah County

The Utah County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Utah County. It reported 2,920 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 13 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Provo, 115,479 residents: 3,302 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Orem, 96,646 residents: 2,669 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lehi, 93,446 residents: 1,605 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Saratoga Springs, 57,411 residents: 737 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Spanish Fork, 47,809 residents: 1,010 arrests reported for 2025.
  • American Fork, 41,298 residents: 1,481 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Pleasant Grove, 38,127 residents: 858 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Springville, 36,027 residents: 905 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Payson, 24,666 residents: 1,077 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Santaquin, 18,394 residents: 487 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Mapleton, 14,812 residents: 279 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lindon, 12,018 residents: 467 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 Draper Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Utah County, so its arrests are not broken out for Utah County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Utah County: Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University (campus police); Utah County Major Crimes Task Force and Utah County Attorney, Investigations Division (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Utah County

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.

  • Provo: 3,302 for 2025, 3,075 for 2024, 2,661 for 2023, 2,266 for 2022, 2,446 for 2021 and 2,413 for 2020.
  • Utah County Sheriff's Office: 2,920 for 2025, 2,505 for 2024, 2,648 for 2023, 2,807 for 2022, 2,408 for 2021 and 2,388 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Orem: 2,669 for 2025, 2,958 for 2024, 2,875 for 2023, 2,723 for 2022, 2,569 for 2021 and 3,851 for 2020.
  • Lehi: 1,605 for 2025, 1,663 for 2024, 1,754 for 2023 and 1,612 for 2022.
  • American Fork: 1,481 for 2025, 1,537 for 2024, 1,390 for 2023, 1,307 for 2022 and 1,109 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
  • Payson: 1,077 for 2025, 1,023 for 2024, 932 for 2023, 938 for 2022, 937 for 2021 and 861 for 2020.
  • Spanish Fork: 1,010 for 2025, 846 for 2024, 1,031 for 2023, 1,053 for 2022, 867 for 2021 and 965 for 2020.
  • Springville: 905 for 2025, 947 for 2024, 1,145 for 2022, 995 for 2021, 760 for 2020 and 1,592 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
  • Pleasant Grove: 858 for 2025, 798 for 2024, 854 for 2023, 768 for 2022, 844 for 2021 and 657 for 2020.
  • Saratoga Springs: 737 for 2025, 828 for 2024, 760 for 2023, 931 for 2022, 724 for 2021 and 711 for 2020.
  • Santaquin: 487 for 2025, 361 for 2024, 351 for 2023, 362 for 2021, 442 for 2020 and 591 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
  • Lindon: 467 for 2025, 518 for 2024, 489 for 2023, 536 for 2022, 526 for 2021 and 418 for 2020.

Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 18,106 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 18,106 in 2025 against 17,635 in 2024, up 2.7 percent.

Through July 2026, the 12 agencies with every month so far on file reported 9,149 arrests, against 9,132 in the same months of 2025.

Salem reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Utah County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Utah 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 490 people, down from about 600 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,172 beds, and it ran at 42 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 Utah 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 Utah County

Whether someone was arrested in Utah County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Utah County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Utah County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at utcourts.gov/en/court-records-publications/records/xchange.html); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at atty.utahcounty.gov).

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 Utah 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 Utah County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 801-851-4000.
  • An arrest in Provo, Orem, Lehi, Saratoga Springs, Spanish Fork, American Fork 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 Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University or Utah County Major Crimes 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 Utah County, through the court records page at utcourts.gov.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at utah-county-ut.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | 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 Utah County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 13 of the 24 cities in Utah County: the twelve named above and Salem. Eagle Mountain, Highland, Vineyard, Alpine, Cedar Hills, Elk Ridge, Genola, Woodland Hills, Goshen, Cedar Fort and Fairfield have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Lone Peak Police Department as a city agency in Utah County; Lone Peak is not among the cities above.

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 Utah County.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Utah 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 Utah County each year?

Provo reported 3,302 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 18,106 between them.

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

Look on the custody page of the Utah 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 Utah County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Utah County?

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Utah 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 utah-county-ut.nextrequest.com.

Is this the official Utah 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.