Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 26, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
St. Albans, Vermont, in Franklin County, has about 7,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, and, if the State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Vermont Superior Court, Franklin Unit. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: St. Albans public records, Franklin County arrest records, Vermont arrest records and Vermont inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in St. Albans
The FBI lists St. Albans with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as St. Albans Police Department. It reported 835 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 77 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Franklin County: the St. Albans State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests St. Albans Reports
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.
- St. Albans: 835 for 2025, 848 for 2024, 481 for 2023, 371 for 2022, 316 for 2021 and 511 for 2020.
St. Albans's 835 arrests in 2025 were down 1.5 percent from 848 in 2024.
Through August 2026, St. Albans reported 416 arrests, against 529 in the same months of 2025.
Across Franklin County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,024 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. Albans Are Held
In Vermont the jails belong to the state. Anyone held after an arrest in St. Albans is booked into a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, and the inmate lookup is the state's.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Vermont Department of Corrections lists its inmates at vermont.gov/service/offender-locator.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in St. Albans
An arrest in St. Albans can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the Vermont Department of Corrections's inmate locator, for anyone held; the case index of the Vermont Superior Court, Franklin Unit, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at vtcourts.gov/court-locations/franklin-civil-division, phone 802-524-7993); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at vtbar.org/gov-scott-appoints-bram-kranichfield-as-franklin-county-s..., phone 802-223-2020).
Statewide, Vermont Judiciary Public Portal is the courts' free statewide case search.
Vermont is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: Vermont criminal conviction records are public and can be ordered online on anyone by name, through the Vermont Crime Information Center. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in St. Albans
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Vermont Public Records Act the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying, and staff time after the first 30 minutes.
- An arrest by the St. Albans police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at stalbanspd.com/report-request (page title: Record Request | Saint Albans Police Department), phone (802)524-2166, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 802-524-2121.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 802-223-2020, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Vermont Superior Court, Franklin Unit, through the court records page at vtcourts.gov, phone 802-524-7993.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Franklin County guide covers every agency in the county: Franklin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. Albans each year?
St. Albans reported 835 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in St. Albans?
Through the Vermont Department of Corrections's inmate locator at vermont.gov/service/offender-locator; the department holds everyone in custody in Vermont.
Where are people arrested in St. Albans booked?
In a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, which runs every jail in Vermont.
Are arrest records public in St. Albans?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Vermont Crime Information Center: Vermont criminal conviction records are public and can be ordered online on anyone by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Vermont Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in St. Albans?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. Albans police for its own arrests, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Vermont Public Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official St. Albans website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.