SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Johnson County, Indiana, has about 171,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and one other agency. 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts. 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: Johnson County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Johnson County

The Johnson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Johnson County. It reported 715 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists eight cities in Johnson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:

  • Greenwood, 68,175 residents: 2,621 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Franklin, 26,158 residents: 855 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Bargersville, 11,283 residents: 222 arrests reported for 2025.
  • New Whiteland, 5,842 residents: 48 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Whiteland, 5,511 residents: 122 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Edinburgh, 4,478 residents: 228 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Trafalgar, 1,607 residents.
  • Prince's Lakes, 1,372 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2023.

A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Johnson County: Clark-Pleasant Community Schools Corporation (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Johnson County

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.

  • Greenwood: 2,621 for 2025, 2,370 for 2023, 3,080 for 2022, 2,408 for 2021, 1,794 for 2020 and 2,352 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
  • Franklin: 855 for 2025, 691 for 2024, 702 for 2023, 589 for 2022, 597 for 2021 and 499 for 2020.
  • Johnson County Sheriff's Office: 715 for 2025, 590 for 2024, 638 for 2023, 506 for 2022, 550 for 2021 and 580 for 2020.
  • Edinburgh: 228 for 2025, 263 for 2023, 244 for 2021, 260 for 2020 and 330 for 2019; 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
  • Bargersville: 222 for 2025, 316 for 2024, 351 for 2023, 103 for 2022, 118 for 2021 and 75 for 2020.
  • Whiteland: 122 for 2025, 87 for 2024, 83 for 2023 and 35 for 2022.
  • New Whiteland: 48 for 2025, 58 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 64 for 2021, 116 for 2020 and 278 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
  • Prince's Lakes: 11 for 2023, 11 for 2022 and 16 for 2021.

Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,811 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,914 in 2025 against 1,684 in 2024, up 14 percent.

Through June 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,451 arrests, against 2,455 in the same months of 2025.

Prince's Lakes and Trafalgar reported only part of 2025 (10 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Johnson County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Johnson 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 2024 the jail held about 320 people, down from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 581 beds, and it ran at 55 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Indiana Department of Correction lists its inmates at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Johnson County

An arrest in Johnson County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at in.gov/courts/local/johnson-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at johnsoncounty.in.gov/department/index.php?structureid=108, phone (317) 346-4300).

Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.

Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana State Police. 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 Johnson 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 Indiana Access to Public Records Act the agency must answer within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits.

  • An arrest by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Greenwood, Franklin, Bargersville, New Whiteland, Whiteland, Edinburgh or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by Clark-Pleasant Community Schools Corporation: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (317) 346-4300, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/johnson-county.
  • Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

Cities in Johnson County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the eight cities in Johnson County: Greenwood, Franklin, Bargersville, New Whiteland, Whiteland, Edinburgh, Trafalgar and Prince's Lakes.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Johnson Circuit and Superior Courts.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Johnson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Johnson County each year?

Greenwood reported 2,621 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,811 between them.

Where are people arrested in Johnson County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Johnson County?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Johnson County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Johnson County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the answer is due within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email.

Is this the official Johnson 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.