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 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Gray County, Kansas, has about 5,700 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gray County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Gray 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: Gray County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gray County
The Gray County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gray County. It reported 84 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Gray County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Montezuma, 994 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 Gray 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.
- Gray County Sheriff's Office: 84 for 2025, 114 for 2024, 124 for 2023, 104 for 2021, 119 for 2020 and 113 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Montezuma: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 84 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 84 in 2025 against 114 in 2024, down 26 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gray County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gray 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 2018 the jail held about 32 people. Its rated capacity in 2016, the last year with a capacity figure, was 43 beds, and it ran at 20 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Gray County Sheriff's Office at graycosheriff.org (page title: Gray County Sheriff's Office of Kansas), phone (620) 855-3916, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Gray County
For Gray County the place to look is 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 Gray 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 Gray County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (620) 855-3916.
- An arrest in Montezuma: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gray County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Gray County: Montezuma. Cimarron, Ingalls, Copeland and Ensign 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 Gray County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gray County each year?
The Gray County Sheriff's Office reported 84 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 84 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gray County?
Ask the Gray County Sheriff's Office at (620) 855-3916; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at graycosheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Gray County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gray County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gray 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 Gray County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gray 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 Gray 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.