Oklahoma

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

How Oklahoma handles a case

Sets bail first: Sheriff or jailer on the presiding judge's bail schedule; then a district, associate district, or special judge
Who that is: Judges and others
Release on a schedule: Jail or police can release on a schedule
Time to see a judge: No hour limit set
Money bail: Allowed
Risk assessment: Some counties
Prosecutor: District attorney, one per judicial district, elected
Public defense: Mixed
Jails run by: Mixed

Who decides release first: Before a person sees a judge, the jail may release on a bail schedule the district's presiding judge sets by order, and the sheriff may sign the release order where court rule allows. A judge sets or confirms bail at the first appearance or when charges are filed. Police and sheriffs may not release anyone arrested for domestic abuse, stalking, harassment, or a protective order violation until a judge sees them.
22 O.S. sec. 1105 22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)
Time to see a judge: A person arrested must be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. Oklahoma statute sets no hour limit.
22 O.S. sec. 181
Money bail: Oklahoma allows money bail, and each judicial district may adopt a money bail schedule that it reviews every year. Pretrial bail is set as a dollar amount.
22 O.S. sec. 1105.2 (in force until 2026-12-31)

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

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

FBI data coverage

Population covered: 99%; of Oklahoma's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
Agencies on NIBRS: 99%; 479 of 481 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.

2 agencies not reporting through NIBRS

Council on Law Enforcement Education and TrainingOther State Agency
District Attorneys Council: Drug Task Force 16Other State Agency

Counties and agencies: no data yet

Every agency in Oklahoma 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: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), Information Services Division, Statistical Analysis Center and Field Services Unit
Incident reporting: SIBRS (State Incident-Based Reporting System), verified NIBRS-compliant by the FBI in 2009
Annual report: Crime in OklahomaLatest edition: 2024. Editions online 2002 to 2024.
Online portal: OSBI Oklahoma Crime StatisticsData 2010 to 2026.
What changed: Title changed from Uniform Crime Report (2002-2013) to Crime in Oklahoma (2014 on). Since 2021 OSBI accepts only SIBRS data, no summary UCR.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

Oklahoma sources

2 sources

OSBI Uniform Crime Reporting (Crime in Oklahoma)State · OK
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
State UCR repository (Field Services Unit); annual Crime in Oklahoma PDF published by OSBI SAC.
Oklahoma Judiciary annual reportState · OK
Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts · Courts · pdf · annual
County (77): pending, disposed, filed; felony and misdemeanor filings. FY2011-FY2025. oscn.net robots.txt disallows all agents.

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