Carter County, Oklahoma

How a case moves here

Carter County follows Oklahoma law on arrests, release, and courts. These rules are the same in every county in the state; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

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)
Courts: The district court in each of the 77 counties hears almost all criminal cases, felonies and misdemeanors alike. District judges, associate district judges, and special judges all sit in the district court. City municipal courts hear violations of city ordinances.
Oklahoma County District Court, District Court 11 O.S. sec. 27-103
Judges and magistrates: Voters elect district judges and associate district judges in nonpartisan elections for four-year terms, and the governor fills vacancies. The district judges appoint special judges, and a few special judges are not lawyers, who may hear only small misdemeanors. The mayor appoints municipal judges for two-year terms; most must be lawyers.
Oklahoma County District Court, District Court 20 O.S. secs. 121.1, 122, 123 11 O.S. sec. 27-104

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. Some of this is medium confidence and still being checked. SB 1618 (2026) rewrites 22 O.S. 1105.2 from 2027-01-01; recheck first_bail, money_bail, and pretrial_assessment then. Whether the Oklahoma County jail trust has been dissolved was not confirmed. Oklahoma's district court is a single general trial court; only municipal courts sit below it.

What this county does differently

Nothing county-specific yet

Whether Carter County runs a pretrial services office, uses a risk assessment, or has its own bail schedule appears here once a cited source says so.

Cities and towns

Every city, village, town, and township with any of its land in Carter County, largest first. Population, the whole place's: Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024.

Police agencies

Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29. An agency that serves several counties appears on each. Population served is the FBI's figure.

Crime

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by agencies in Carter County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
Violent crime	223	283	358	324	288	605	426
Murder	3	5	5	3		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	6.4
Rape	43	31	43	29	23	69	63
Robbery	14	14	13	7	7	23	39
Aggravated assault	163	233	297	285	258	507	318
Property crime	1,289	1,040	1,190	1,066	829	2,220	2,191
Burglary	328	252	249	168	200	491	468
Larceny	821	649	820	779	547	1,482	1,446
Motor vehicle theft	140	139	121	119	82	246	277
Arson	9	12	9	24	10	26	18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by agencies in Carter County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index	1,469	1,529	1,709	1,671	1,447	3,208	3,337
Simple assault and intimidation	511	443	461	462	446	952	1,234
Vandalism	245	290	358	271	283	593	503
Fraud	155	160	162	153	139	315	417
Drug abuse violations	361	391	478	573	390	899	708
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	55	70	89	73	77	149	134
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	42	31	38	27	20	65	72
Forgery and counterfeiting	36	52	26	20	16	61	68
Embezzlement	21	34	19	19	16	45	45
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	20	26	30	29	22	52	63
Prostitution and commercialized vice		1				Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	7.6
Gambling		1	1			Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	0.1
Other Group A offenses	23	30	47	44	38	75	84
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)				1		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	1.6
Human trafficking (not in the total)				1		Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	0.9

Offenses agencies in Carter County reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the reporting agencies police, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Oklahoma's rate over the same years. Agencies that reported part of a year are counted with their people, as the state's rates count them. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Oklahoma: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.