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 2022. 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.
Valley Center, Kansas, in Sedgwick County, has about 7,400 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 Sedgwick 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: Valley Center public records, Sedgwick County arrest records, Kansas arrest records and Kansas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Valley Center
The FBI lists Valley Center with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Valley Center Police Department. It reported 217 arrests for 2022, 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 Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,596 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Sedgwick County: Wichita State University (campus police); Sedwick County Fire Department Arson Investigation and the Goddard Unified School District (other); the Gilley's Park City Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission (state agency).
How Many Arrests Valley Center 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.
- Valley Center: 217 for 2022, 231 for 2021, 210 for 2020 and 169 for 2019.
Valley Center's 217 arrests in 2022 were down 6.1 percent from 231 in 2021.
Across Sedgwick County, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 13,594 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Valley Center Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Valley Center is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 1,170 people, down from about 1,240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,406 beds, and it ran at 84 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 Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office at ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/inmatesearch (page title: Inmate Search | Sedgwick County, Kansas), 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 Valley Center
An arrest in Valley Center can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Sedgwick 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 sedgwickcounty.org/district-attorney).
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 Valley Center
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Valley Center police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at valleycenterks.gov/departments/police/police_records.php (page title: Valley Center, KS), phone (316) 755-7325, 616 E. 5th Street Valley Center, KS 67147, Monday - Thursday 7:00 am to 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sedgwickcounty.org/fire/forms/records-request (page title: Records Request | Sedgwick County, Kansas).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Sedgwick County guide covers every agency in the county: Sedgwick County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Valley Center each year?
Valley Center reported 217 arrests to the FBI for 2022, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Valley Center?
Look on the custody page of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office at ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/inmatesearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Valley Center 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 Valley Center?
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 Valley Center?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Valley Center police for its own arrests, the Sedgwick 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 sedgwickcounty.org/fire/forms/records-request.
Is this the official Valley Center 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.