Maine

What Maine's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.

How Maine handles a case

Sets bail first: Bail commissioner
Who that is: Not a judge
Release on a schedule: No
Time to see a judge: 48 hours
Money bail: Limited (2021)
Risk assessment: Some counties
Prosecutor: District attorney, one per judicial district, elected
Public defense: Mixed
Jails run by: County sheriff

Who decides release first: A bail commissioner sets most first bail, especially after hours. Commissioners are residents the Chief Judge of the District Court appoints, and they need not be lawyers. They may not set bail for murder, Class A to C domestic violence crimes, or violations of a protection order; a judge decides those.
15 M.R.S. 1023
Time to see a judge: A person arrested and not released must see a judge within 48 hours, not counting weekends and holidays, or the jail must release them. A judge or justice of the peace must also find probable cause within 48 hours of a warrantless arrest, counting weekends.
M.R.U. Crim. P. 5(a)M.R.U. Crim. P. 4A(a)
Money bail: Money bail is allowed. Since 2021, a judge or bail commissioner may not set money bail when the top charge is a Class E crime, the lowest class, except for domestic violence, sex crimes, bail violations, and failures to appear.
15 M.R.S. 1026(3)(B-1)

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

Reported offenses and arrests per 100,000 people, year by year, and how Maine compares with the country. They will come from the FBI's state totals.

FBI data coverage

Population covered: 98%; of Maine's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
Agencies on NIBRS: 100%; 129 of 129 agencies send incident detail.

Counties and agencies: no data yet

Every agency in Maine by county, with the year each began sending incident detail to the FBI. They will come from the FBI's agency list and its NIBRS master files.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.

State crime reporting

Program: Maine Department of Public Safety, Maine State Police, UCR/IBR program
Incident reporting: Yes, the state IBR program (contact maine.ibr@maine.gov); Crime in Maine began adding IBR data for agencies that had transitioned.
Annual report: Crime in MaineLatest edition: 2024. Editions online 1995 to 2024.
Online portal: No state portal found.
What changed: Report shifted from summary UCR to IBR data as agencies converted around the FBI 2021 deadline.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

Maine sources

2 sources

Crime in MaineState · ME
Maine State Police, Department of Public Safety · Incidents, Arrests · pdf, html · annual
State Police have run the UCR/IBR program since 1973; annual Crime in Maine report and prebuilt reports.
Maine Judicial Branch reports and dataState · ME
Maine Judicial Branch · Courts · pdf · annual
Region (8) and court: new criminal filings and probation violations, FY20-FY25 rolling.

Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.