Baker County Releases CAD, Police Logs Detailing Arrests, DUIIs, Crashes

The county posted CAD press logs and police logs online in mid-February 2026 that document a series of arrests, traffic crashes and DUII citations involving the Baker County Sheriff’s Office and Baker City Police Department, with allied first responders such as Baker City Fire & Rescue listed among responders. The files, described in the county posting, are dated to mid-February 2026 and relate to incident activity around an event date of February 18, 2026.

The public posting is incomplete in the material provided to this newsroom: the records as supplied state they document arrests, traffic crashes, DUII citations and "other routine but" before the text truncates. The county material contains no counts of arrests or DUII citations, no names of arrestees or suspects, no street or highway locations, no times of incidents, and no outcomes such as bookings or court dates in the excerpt available for review.

Local transparency and records access are the immediate next questions. The research notes identify the agencies named in the logs for follow-up: Baker County Sheriff’s Office, Baker City Police Department and Baker City Fire & Rescue. Reporters and residents seeking fuller detail should request the complete CAD export or press-log files, the exact posting dates and URLs, and documentation of any redactions or withheld fields. The research also recommends asking those agencies whether the posted logs are complete exports from the CAD system or abridged summaries and whether posting this set of logs is routine policy.

For contextual background on how arrest statistics and public-records rules can be reported and accessed, the Indiana 2023 statewide figures provide an example of the scope data can show: Indiana law enforcement agencies reported 129,202 arrest incidents to the National Incident-Based Reporting System in 2023, including 1,902 juveniles and 119,299 adults, of which 91,949 were males and 37,103 were females. In 2023 drug-related arrests accounted for 16.9% of arrests, there were 16,474 simple assaults and 15,240 DUI arrests, and the 2023 total was 10.5% higher than the 2022 figure of 116,971. The Indiana excerpt also notes that the Indiana State Police provides online criminal history services for misdemeanors and felonies under certain age and disposition conditions, and that Indiana's Access to Public Record Act (APRA), also called the Open Door Law ("ODL")(Ind Code 5-14-1.5), was initially enacted by the Indiana General Assembly in 1977 and "grants citizens of the commonwealth the right to request access to examine, view, or make copies of all public records, including arrest records." The excerpt further cautions that "expungement does not mean that one's record or log is completely erased from the criminal history" and that sealed records may still be subpoenaed by eligible persons.

Absent the complete Baker County CAD and police-log exports, residents cannot assess the scope of arrests, DUII enforcement or crash responses recorded for mid-February 2026. Securing the full files from Baker County Sheriff’s Office and Baker City Police Department and obtaining agency statements on posting practice are necessary steps to provide a definitive accounting of incidents and their public-safety implications.