Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Garden City, Kansas, in Finney County, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Finney County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Garden City public records, Finney County arrest records, Kansas arrest records and Kansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Garden City
The FBI lists Garden City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Garden City Police Department. It reported 1,014 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Finney County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 104 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Finney County: Garden City Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Garden City 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.
- Garden City: 1,014 for 2025, 1,529 for 2024, 1,835 for 2023, 1,717 for 2022, 1,553 for 2021 and 1,338 for 2020.
Garden City's 1,014 arrests in 2025 were down 34 percent from 1,529 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Garden City reported 569 arrests, against 615 in the same months of 2025.
Across Finney County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,125 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Garden City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Garden City 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 2022 the jail held about 97 people, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 220 beds, and it ran at 46 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Finney County Sheriff's Office at finneycountysheriffks.gov/jail-division/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Finney County, KS | Sheriff Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Kansas Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.ks.gov/@@search?SearchableText=inmate+search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Garden City
An arrest in Garden City can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Finney County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; Kansas District Court Public Access Portal, the Kansas courts' statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at finneycountyks.gov/66/Attorney, phone (620) 272-3568).
Kansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history record check online, through the Kansas 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 Garden City
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 Kansas Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge staff time and copying.
- An arrest by the Garden City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at gcpolice.org/181/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Garden City, KS), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Finney County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (620) 272-3568, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Finney County guide covers every agency in the county: Finney County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Garden City each year?
Garden City reported 1,014 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Garden City?
Look on the custody page of the Finney County Sheriff's Office at finneycountysheriffks.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Garden City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Finney County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Garden City?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history record check online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Kansas Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Garden City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Garden City police for its own arrests, the Finney County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Kansas Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Garden City website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.