Garfield County, Oklahoma

How a case moves here

Garfield 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 Garfield 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 Garfield 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 Garfield County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
Violent crime	200	228	240	295	301	411	426
Murder			1		2	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	6.4
Rape	43	55	55	63	71	93	63
Robbery	10	13	9	16	12	20	39
Aggravated assault	147	160	175	216	216	297	318
Property crime	1,455	1,583	1,587	1,360	1,135	2,317	2,191
Burglary	397	397	424	359	289	607	468
Larceny	928	1,080	1,074	914	775	1,553	1,446
Motor vehicle theft	130	106	89	87	71	157	277
Arson	7	15	4	16	7	16	18

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by agencies in Garfield County, 2021 to 2025
Offense	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	Per 100k	Oklahoma
All offenses outside the crime index	2,275	2,387	2,336	2,217	2,054	3,667	3,337
Simple assault and intimidation	855	889	902	1,022	977	1,512	1,234
Vandalism	351	309	302	345	277	515	503
Fraud	398	398	377	317	262	570	417
Drug abuse violations	369	429	371	245	285	553	708
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.	73	82	80	63	65	118	134
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing	45	67	44	31	9	64	72
Forgery and counterfeiting	32	40	54	39	29	63	68
Embezzlement	39	39	58	26	24	61	45
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)	79	80	80	52	20	101	63
Prostitution and commercialized vice	1	3	1	3	1	Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.	7.6
Other Group A offenses	33	51	67	74	105	107	84
Manslaughter by negligence (not in the total)			1		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 Garfield 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.