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Cherokee County Sheriff's Office

County agency in Cherokee County. How it reports to the FBI, and the rules its arrests run under.

Reporting to the FBI

Population served
6,415 (FBI figure, 2025)
Incident reporting
Sends incident detail (NIBRS) since December 1992.
Months sent in 2025
12 of 12
FBI agency code
IA0180000

Source: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

After an arrest

Who decides release first

When court is not in session, jail or police staff may release a person under the judicial council's statewide bond schedule before the person sees a magistrate. A judge or magistrate may also order release by phone. Otherwise a magistrate sets release at the initial appearance and must put the order in writing.

Iowa Code 804.21Iowa Code 811.2
Time to see a judge

After a warrantless arrest, police must take the person before the nearest or most accessible magistrate without unnecessary delay. Iowa law sets no number of hours.

Iowa Code 804.22

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

This agency's reported offenses, clearances, and arrests appear here once the agency series is published.