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.
Allen County, Kansas, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Allen County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Allen County District Court. 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: Allen County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Allen County
The Allen County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Allen County. It reported 70 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Iola, 5,309 residents: 222 arrests reported for 2025.
- Humboldt, 1,817 residents.
- La Harpe, 488 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2019.
- Moran, 463 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Allen 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.
- Iola: 222 for 2025, 216 for 2024, 353 for 2023, 357 for 2022, 360 for 2021 and 377 for 2020.
- Allen County Sheriff's Office: 70 for 2025, 140 for 2023, 125 for 2022, 261 for 2021, 211 for 2020 and 195 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Moran: 0 for 2025 and 0 for 2024.
- La Harpe: 1 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 292 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 222 in 2025 against 216 in 2024, up 2.8 percent.
Humboldt reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Allen County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Allen County 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 2019 the jail held about 47 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 72 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 Allen County Sheriff's Office at allencountycorrections.com (page title: Allen County Jail Roster Lookup, IN, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Kansas Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.ks.gov/@@search?SearchableText=inmate+search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Allen County
An arrest in Allen County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Allen 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.
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 Allen County
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 Allen County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Iola, Humboldt, La Harpe or Moran: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Allen County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets and divorce records.
Cities in Allen County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Allen County: Iola, Humboldt, La Harpe and Moran. Gas, Savonburg, Elsmore and Bassett have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Allen County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Allen County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Iola (5,309)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Allen County each year?
Iola reported 222 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 292 between them.
Where are people arrested in Allen County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Allen County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Allen County?
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 Allen County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Allen County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Kansas Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Allen 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.