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.
Sedgwick County, Colorado, has about 2,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick 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: Sedgwick County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sedgwick County
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sedgwick County. It reported 5 arrests for 2021, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office: 5 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sedgwick County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sedgwick County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 1 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 6 beds, and it ran at 17 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Colorado Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Sedgwick County
For Sedgwick County the place to look is the case index of the Sedgwick County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/location/sedgwick-combined-court, phone 970-474-3627).
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 Sedgwick County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sedgwick County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-474-3627.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov (page title: Colorado Open Records Act(CORA) Policy and Request Form | Sedgwick County).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Sedgwick County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sedgwick County each year?
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office reported 5 arrests to the FBI for 2021, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Sedgwick County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sedgwick 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 sedgwickcounty.colorado.gov.
Is this the official Sedgwick 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.