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 2024. 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.
Junction City, Kansas, in Geary County, has about 22,000 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 Geary 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: Junction City public records, Geary County arrest records, Kansas arrest records and Kansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Junction City
The FBI lists Junction City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Junction City Police Department. It reported 1,225 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Geary County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 485 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Junction 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.
- Junction City: 1,225 for 2024, 1,508 for 2023, 1,540 for 2022, 1,668 for 2021, 1,289 for 2020 and 1,498 for 2019.
Junction City's 1,225 arrests in 2024 were down 19 percent from 1,508 in 2023.
Across Geary County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,048 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Junction City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Junction 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 87 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 160 beds, and it ran at 94 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 Geary County Sheriff's Office at gearycountysheriff.gov/corrections-division (page title: Corrections Division | Geary County KS Sheriff), phone 785-762-6583, 826 N. Franklin St., Junction City, KS 66441, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Junction City
For Junction City the place to look is Kansas District Court Public Access Portal, the Kansas courts' statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Junction 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 Junction City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at junctioncity-ks.gov/395/Records-and-Communications-Division (page title: Records and Communications Division | Junction City, KS), phone 785-762-3931, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Geary County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 785-762-6583.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Geary County guide covers every agency in the county: Geary County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Junction City each year?
Junction City reported 1,225 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Junction City?
Ask the Geary County Sheriff's Office at 785-762-6583; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gearycountysheriff.gov/corrections-division.
Where are people arrested in Junction City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Geary County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Junction 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 Junction City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Junction City police for its own arrests, the Geary 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 Junction 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.