Find Lewiston Recent Arrests

How Lewiston Arrests Work

Lewiston serves as the Nez Perce County seat. The 2020 Census counted 34,203 residents. The Lewiston Police Department, known as LPD, handles most law enforcement inside the city. County deputies can make an arrest too. So can Idaho State Police and other agencies working in or near town. Where a person was picked up does not tell you which agency made the arrest.

One arrest can leave two records. LPD keeps the police report and the city's evidence. The Nez Perce County Adult Detention Center keeps the custody record created at booking. Booking is the jail process that follows an arrest. The official In Custody page comes first for current county detention, but its PDF shows only a roster number and name, with no photo, charge, bond, court date, release date, or arresting agency.

Where Lewiston Arrests Appear

LPD publishes no booking roster or mugshot page. Each source answers a different question, so never merge a log entry with a jail result.

The county list shows custody, not criminal history. Juveniles are left off entirely. Once a person is released, the name drops from the roster even though the LPD report and court case live on. Anyone under Idaho Department of Correction supervision belongs in the state locator instead.

Find a Lewiston Arrest Booking

Order your sources deliberately. A police call is not a completed booking, and the county's 24 Hour Arrests page explains the same-day reporting window.

1. Open the county In Custody page and its current PDF. Use the PDF find command for the last name, and note the generation time.
2. If current status matters, call the Adult Detention Center at 208-799-3132. The county says recent changes can lag online.
3. Check the dated LPD activity source for the event number, type, address, disposition, and reported time. A log disposition is not a court judgment.
4. Use Idaho Odyssey to look for a filed case and later disposition, meaning the court’s outcome.
5. Request the police report from LPD or the booking record from the Sheriff, based on which agency created it.

Lewiston Booking Post Schedule

The county describes its arrested-and-booked report as a daily product. Each report covers a 24-hour period. The database updates once every 24 hours. Reports go out Monday through Thursday. Weekend and holiday activity lands in the Monday report. That is a steady rhythm, not a live feed.

Someone booked right after a refresh may not show up on the first look. The same lag can hit on a weekend or holiday. Check the PDF again and call detention staff before assuming a release. The county roster source shows the timing and access rules behind the Lewiston booking path.

The official roster page lists who is currently held at the Nez Perce County jail.

Lewiston Police Log Differences

The best dated activity source is the KOZE Lewiston Police Logs. Entries list the incident number and type. They also carry the street, city and state, disposition, and reported time. The archive holds traffic events and wanted-person calls too. Welfare checks appear as well. Plenty of these calls never turn into an arrest.

That gap matters when you read the log. A disposition like "report taken" or "citation issued" does not prove a county-jail booking. It also cannot show that a person is still in custody. Match any useful incident to the official roster. Then chase the LPD report or the court docket. Treat Big Country News Connection's daily activity stories as secondary copies. The dated KOZE interface illustrates the LPD activity fields available outside the official city site.

The log format is easy to spot once you know the fields, and the county or originating agency confirms any actual booking.

Request Lewiston Police Records

Start at the city's public records and police reports page. The request then moves through NextRequest. Give the person's name, an approximate date, and the exact record you want. Add an incident number if you have one. Need a booking photo? Ask whether LPD or the county jail created and holds it. The city does not promise every photo is public.

Resolution 2025-39 took effect October 1, 2025 for FY2026. It allows some resident work free within stated limits. Redaction, audio or video, excess pages, nonresident work, labor, and delivery can bring fees. Ask for an estimate, and assume no fixed photo fee or response time.

The police records custodian is Chief Jason Kuzik. County booking files are different. Send those to the Sheriff Records Division at 1150 Wall Street in Lewiston, or call 208-799-3137.

Lewiston Arrest Record Fields

The public roster shows just two fields. The full booking file holds more. A targeted request can ask for the disclosable intake record and the booking date. It can also seek alleged charge information, release or hold data, and any booking photograph tied to the named event. Each request still goes through a disclosure review. Fields absent from the online PDF should not be assumed.

The LPD activity log keeps a different inventory. It lists an incident number, event type, location, city and state, disposition, and reported time. That helps you find the police event. It will not settle bond or final charge questions. Bond is the amount or condition set for release while a case is pending. The county roster does not display bond. Court filings and the clerk are the better route for bond and hearing facts.

A good request names both the event and the copy you want. Ask the city for an LPD incident report and related disclosable media. Ask the Sheriff for a county booking record and any disclosable booking photograph. Then ask the District Court for documents in a specific filed case. Each office answers only for records it holds.

Lewiston News Coverage Limits

Lewiston news outlets cover selected police and court events. Dailyfly local news, the Lewiston Tribune, KOZE, and Big Country News Connection are the main ones. A story might rest on an affidavit, a police statement, a court filing, or a jail image. Each source sits elsewhere in the case timeline.

News helps once a dated event rolls off the current roster. Coverage is not comprehensive. An old image does not show current custody. Start with official county and court records. Treat publishers as historical leads, and use the Arrest Log page for the broader multi-day source distinctions.

Publication timing also differs across the three main sources. An LPD activity item starts with a reported call and may appear even when no one enters jail. The county roster begins at detention intake and reflects current custody on its stated update cycle. It can lag a fresh booking. It later drops a name after release. The Idaho court record begins only when a matter is filed, and it can run through hearings to a final disposition. A disposition is the court's outcome. It is not the log's event label or the jail's intake status. A dated log, an absent roster name, and an open court case can all describe the same event without contradicting one another. Note the date and source of each fact. Use LPD for the incident, detention staff for custody, and the court for the result.

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