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.
Finney County, Kansas, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Finney County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one campus agency. 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 Finney 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: Finney County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Finney County
The Finney County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Finney County. It reported 104 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Garden City, 27,996 residents: 1,014 arrests reported for 2025.
- Holcomb, 2,242 residents: 7 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Finney County: Garden City Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Finney 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.
- Garden City: 1,014 for 2025, 1,529 for 2024, 1,835 for 2023, 1,717 for 2022, 1,553 for 2021 and 1,338 for 2020.
- Finney County Sheriff's Office: 104 for 2025, 132 for 2024, 95 for 2023, 159 for 2022, 154 for 2021 and 123 for 2020.
- Holcomb: 7 for 2025.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,125 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,118 in 2025 against 1,661 in 2024, down 33 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Finney County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Finney 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 2022 the jail held about 97 people, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 220 beds, and it ran at 46 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 Finney County Sheriff's Office at finneycountysheriffks.gov/jail-division/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Finney County, KS | Sheriff Office), 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 Finney County
Whether someone was arrested in Finney County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Finney 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 finneycountyks.gov/66/Attorney, phone (620) 272-3568).
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 Finney 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 Finney County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Garden City or Holcomb: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Garden City Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (620) 272-3568, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Finney County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Finney County: Garden City and Holcomb.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Finney County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Finney County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Garden City (27,996)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Finney County each year?
Garden City reported 1,014 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,125 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Finney County?
Look on the custody page of the Finney County Sheriff's Office at finneycountysheriffks.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Finney County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Finney County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Finney 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 Finney County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Finney 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 Finney 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.