Utah
What Utah's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Utah handles a case
- Sets bail first
- County jail official under the sheriff's policy and capped amounts; then a magistrate (district or justice court judge)
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- 24 hours
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- Public Safety Assessment (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- County attorney or district attorney, one per county, elected
- Public defense
- Contract
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
Before a magistrate acts, a county jail official may release some people on their own recognizance under the sheriff's written policy, or set a capped money bail for most misdemeanors and some third-degree property and fraud felonies. The jail may not do either for violent offenses, domestic violence, or once police submit a probable cause statement. A magistrate then finds probable cause and issues a temporary pretrial status order releasing or holding the person.
Utah Code 77-20-203Utah Code 77-20-204Utah Code 77-20-205- Time to see a judge
After a warrantless arrest, police must give a magistrate a sworn probable cause statement within 24 hours. If the jail has no probable cause finding and pretrial status order 24 hours after booking, it must release the person on recognizance, unless a magistrate grants one 24-hour extension for good cause.
Utah R. Crim. P. 9- Money bail
Utah allows money bail. A magistrate or judge may release on recognizance, set conditions including money bail, or order detention, and jail officials may set money bail only up to fixed caps, such as $5,000 for listed felonies and $1,950 for a class A misdemeanor.
Utah Code 77-20-204Utah Code 77-20-205
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 98%
- of Utah's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 97%
- 140 of 144 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
4 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Kamas Police DepartmentCity
- Unified Fire Authority Investigations BureauOther
- Utah Department of Corrections Law Enforcement BureauOther State Agency
- Wendover Police DepartmentCity
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Utah Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification, Data Collection and Analysis Section
- Incident reporting
- The state runs its own incident-based repository; its name is not confirmed.
- Annual report
- Crime in UtahLatest edition: 2024. Editions online 1997 to 2024.
- Online portal
- Crime in Utah Dashboards
- What changed
- Dashboards launched April 2022 and were billed as replacing the PDF, but BCI kept publishing annual PDFs through 2024. All agencies had to report NIBRS from January 1, 2021.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Utah sources
- Crime in Utah DashboardsState · UT
Utah Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard, pdf · annual
State NIBRS repository; dashboards plus historical PDFs at bci.utah.gov/utah-crime-statistics/.
Utah State Courts, Administrative Office of the Courts · Courts · xlsx, pdf, dashboard · annual
District, county, court type, location: filings only (felony, misdemeanor, DUI, infraction), FY2010-FY2026. Legacy disposition PDFs FY1997-FY2022 are images. Loaded.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.