Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Kiowa County, Colorado, has about 1,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Kiowa County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Kiowa County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kiowa County
The Kiowa County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kiowa County. It reported 14 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Kiowa County Sheriff's Office Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Kiowa County Sheriff's Office: 14 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 24 for 2022, 10 for 2021, 68 for 2020 and 47 for 2019.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kiowa County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Kiowa County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 3 people, down from about 6 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 3 beds, and it ran at 113 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office at kiowacounty.colorado.gov/government/elected-officials/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Kiowa County), phone (719) 438-5411, 1305 Goff Street, P.O. Box 427, Eads, CO 81036, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Colorado Department of Corrections lists its inmates at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Kiowa County
Whether someone was arrested in Kiowa County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Kiowa County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/kiowa-county); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at coda23.gov/contact, phone (720) 733-4500).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Kiowa County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (719) 438-5411.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (720) 733-4500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kiowa County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kiowacounty.colorado.gov (page title: Clerk and Recorder Open Records Request | Kiowa County).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Kiowa County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Kiowa County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Kiowa County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kiowa County each year?
The Kiowa County Sheriff's Office reported 14 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kiowa County?
Ask the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office at (719) 438-5411; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kiowacounty.colorado.gov.
Where are people arrested in Kiowa County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kiowa County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Kiowa County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kiowacounty.colorado.gov.
Is this the official Kiowa County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.