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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Caledonia County, Vermont, has about 31,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Caledonia County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one state agency. An arrest 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, Caledonia Unit. 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: Caledonia County public records, Vermont arrest records, Vermont inmate search and Vermont criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Caledonia County
The Caledonia County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Caledonia County. It reported 2 arrests for 2025. In Vermont the police for a given address is the town police, the county sheriff or the Vermont State Police, whichever took the call.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Caledonia County: the St. Johnsbury State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Caledonia 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.
- St. Johnsbury: 163 for 2025, 174 for 2024, 257 for 2023, 411 for 2022, 248 for 2021 and 239 for 2020.
- Lyndonville: 100 for 2025, 100 for 2024, 89 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 42 for 2020 and 62 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Hardwick: 68 for 2025, 84 for 2023, 65 for 2021, 54 for 2020 and 112 for 2019; 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Caledonia County Sheriff's Office: 2 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 2 for 2023 and 11 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 333 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 265 in 2025 against 276 in 2024, down 4 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 301 arrests, against 206 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Caledonia County Are Held
In Vermont the jails belong to the state. Anyone held after an arrest in Caledonia County is booked into a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, and the inmate lookup is the state's.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at vermont.gov/service/offender-locator.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Caledonia County
Whether someone was arrested in Caledonia County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the Vermont Department of Corrections's inmate locator, for anyone held; the case index of the Vermont Superior Court, Caledonia Unit, kept by the clerk of each division, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at acluvt.org/getting-know-vermonts-states-attorneys).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at bgs.vermont.gov/facilities/east/caledoniacourt (page title: Caledonia County Courthouse | Buildings and General Services), phone (802) 751-2622, belongs to a lower court, not to the Vermont Superior Court, Caledonia Unit.
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 Caledonia 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 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 Caledonia County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the St. Johnsbury State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Vermont Superior Court, Caledonia Unit it is kept by the clerk of each division. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at bgs.vermont.gov, phone (802) 751-2622, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Caledonia County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Caledonia County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'. The FBI's list also carries the Lyndonville Police Department, the St. Johnsbury Police Department and the Hardwick Police Department as city agencies in Caledonia County; Lyndonville, St. Johnsbury and Hardwick are not among the cities above.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Caledonia County each year?
St. Johnsbury reported 163 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 333 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Caledonia County?
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 Caledonia County booked?
In a facility of the Vermont Department of Corrections, which runs every jail in Vermont.
Are arrest records public in Caledonia County?
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 Caledonia County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Caledonia County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Vermont Public Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Caledonia 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.