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 September 28, 2026.
Greenwood County, Kansas, has about 5,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office. 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 Greenwood 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: Greenwood County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greenwood County
The Greenwood County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greenwood County. It reported 213 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Greenwood County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Greenwood County Sheriff's Office: 213 for 2025, 289 for 2024, 298 for 2023, 277 for 2022, 300 for 2021 and 296 for 2020.
The Greenwood County Sheriff's Office's 213 arrests in 2025 were down 26 percent from 289 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Greenwood County Sheriff's Office reported 123 arrests, against 135 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greenwood County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Greenwood 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 2019 the jail held about 30 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 45 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Greenwood County Sheriff's Office at greenwoodcounty.org/sheriffs-department (page title: Sheriff’s Department | Greenwood County, Kansas), phone 620-583-5568, 311 N. Main Street Eureka, KS 67045, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
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 Greenwood County
Whether someone was arrested in Greenwood County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Greenwood County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at 13thjudicial.org/35/Greenwood-County, phone 620-583-8153); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at greenwoodcounty.org/attorneys-office, phone 620-583-8171).
Statewide, Kansas District Court Public Access Portal is the Kansas courts' statewide case search.
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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 620-583-5568.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 620-583-8171, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Greenwood County District Court, through the court records page at 13thjudicial.org/35/Greenwood-County, phone 620-583-8153.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at greenwoodcounty.org/open-records-requests (page title: Open Records Requests | Greenwood County, Kansas).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Greenwood County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Greenwood County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Greenwood County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greenwood County each year?
The Greenwood County Sheriff's Office reported 213 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Greenwood County?
Ask the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office at 620-583-5568; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at greenwoodcounty.org/sheriffs-department.
Where are people arrested in Greenwood County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Greenwood 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 Greenwood County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greenwood 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 greenwoodcounty.org/open-records-requests.
Is this the official Greenwood 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.