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.
Harvey County, Kansas, has about 34,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Harvey County Sheriff's Office and seven 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 Harvey 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: Harvey County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Harvey County
The Harvey County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Harvey County. It reported 224 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Harvey County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Newton, 18,320 residents: 898 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hesston, 3,482 residents: 13 arrests reported for 2025.
- Halstead, 2,144 residents: 58 arrests reported for 2023.
- North Newton, 1,798 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2024.
- Sedgwick, 1,582 residents: 13 arrests reported for 2019.
- Burrton, 846 residents.
- Walton, 218 residents.
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 Harvey County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Newton: 898 for 2025, 726 for 2024, 704 for 2023, 745 for 2022, 1,012 for 2021 and 794 for 2020.
- Harvey County Sheriff's Office: 224 for 2025, 185 for 2024, 158 for 2023, 130 for 2022, 170 for 2021 and 191 for 2020.
- Halstead: 58 for 2023, 40 for 2022, 36 for 2021, 45 for 2020 and 17 for 2019.
- Hesston: 13 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 20 for 2023, 35 for 2022, 29 for 2021 and 44 for 2020.
- Sedgwick: 13 for 2019.
- North Newton: 6 for 2024, 41 for 2020 and 53 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 940 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 940 in 2023 against 950 in 2022, down 1.1 percent.
Burrton and North Newton reported only part of 2023 (9 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Harvey County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Harvey 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 2023 the jail held about 110 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020, the last year with a capacity figure, was 133 beds, and it ran at 74 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 Harvey County Sheriff's Office at harveycounty.gov/detentioncenter (page title: Detention Center), phone 316-284-6847, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Harvey County
Whether someone was arrested in Harvey County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 harveycounty.gov/attorney).
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 Harvey 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 Harvey County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 316-284-6847.
- An arrest in Newton, Hesston, Halstead, North Newton, Sedgwick, Burrton or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Harvey County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the seven cities in Harvey County: Newton, Hesston, Halstead, North Newton, Sedgwick, Burrton and Walton.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Harvey County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Harvey County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Newton (18,320)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Harvey County each year?
Newton reported 898 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Harvey County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 940 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Harvey County?
Ask the Harvey County Sheriff's Office at 316-284-6847; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at harveycounty.gov/detentioncenter.
Where are people arrested in Harvey County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Harvey County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Harvey 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 Harvey County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Harvey 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 Harvey 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.