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 September 26, 2026.
Lansing, Kansas, in Leavenworth County, has about 11,000 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 Leavenworth 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: Lansing public records, Leavenworth County arrest records, Kansas arrest records and Kansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lansing
The FBI lists Lansing with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lansing Police Department. It reported 91 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 Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 288 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Lansing 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.
- Lansing: 91 for 2025, 55 for 2024, 53 for 2023, 49 for 2022, 86 for 2021 and 130 for 2020.
Lansing's 91 arrests in 2025 were up 65 percent from 55 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Lansing reported 12 arrests, against 19 in the same months of 2025.
Across Leavenworth County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 953 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lansing Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lansing 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 110 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 223 beds, and it ran at 65 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 Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office at lvsheriff.org/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=desc/1 (page title: Inmate Roster | Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office | Sort Booking Time | Descending | Page 1), 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 Lansing
An arrest in Lansing can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Leavenworth County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at leavenworthcounty.gov/departments/district_court/records.php, phone (913) 684-0716).
Statewide, Kansas District Court Public Access Portal is the Kansas courts' statewide case search.
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 Lansing
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 Lansing police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at content.civicplus.com/api/assets/4bde789f-0206-4029-aa4f-928ba47f3af7 (page title: Lansing Police Department Records Disclosure Request), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Leavenworth County District Court, through the court records page at leavenworthcounty.gov, phone (913) 684-0716.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at leavenworthcounty.gov (page title: Welcome to Leavenworth County, KS).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Leavenworth County guide covers every agency in the county: Leavenworth County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lansing each year?
Lansing reported 91 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lansing?
Look on the custody page of the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office at lvsheriff.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Lansing booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lansing?
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 Lansing?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lansing police for its own arrests, the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Kansas Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at leavenworthcounty.gov.
Is this the official Lansing 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.