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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Coffey County, Kansas, has about 8,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Coffey 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 Coffey 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: Coffey County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Coffey County
The Coffey County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Coffey County. It reported 67 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:
- Burlington, 2,596 residents: 58 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lebo, 887 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Waverly, 570 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- LeRoy, 446 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2019.
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 Coffey 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.
- Coffey County Sheriff's Office: 67 for 2025, 83 for 2024 and 84 for 2023.
- Burlington: 58 for 2025, 67 for 2024, 85 for 2023, 99 for 2022, 99 for 2021 and 70 for 2020.
- Lebo: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 8 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Waverly: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- LeRoy: 0 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 125 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 125 in 2025 against 150 in 2024, down 17 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Coffey County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Coffey County 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 2023 the jail held about 17 people, up from about 17 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 18 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 custody page of the Coffey County Sheriff's Office at coffeycountysheriff.org/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=... (page title: Inmate Roster | Coffey County Sheriff's Office Kansas | Sort Booking Time | Ascending | Page 1), phone 620.364.2123, 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 Coffey County
An arrest in Coffey County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Coffey 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 coffeycountyks.org/168/County-Attorney, phone 620-364-5111).
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 Coffey County
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 Coffey County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 620.364.2123.
- An arrest in Burlington, Lebo, Waverly or LeRoy: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 620-364-5111, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coffeycountysheriff.org/records-request (page title: Records Request | Coffey County Sheriff's Office Kansas).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Coffey County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Coffey County: Burlington, Lebo, Waverly and LeRoy. New Strawn and Gridley 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 Coffey County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Coffey County each year?
The Coffey County Sheriff's Office reported 67 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 125 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Coffey County?
Look on the custody page of the Coffey County Sheriff's Office at coffeycountysheriff.org, or call 620.364.2123. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Coffey County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coffey County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Coffey 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 Coffey County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Coffey 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coffeycountysheriff.org/records-request.
Is this the official Coffey 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.