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 on September 24, 2026.
Kingman County, Kansas, has about 6,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kingman 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 Kingman 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: Kingman County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kingman County
The Kingman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kingman County. It reported 71 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Kingman County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Kingman, 2,866 residents: 35 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Kingman 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.
- Kingman County Sheriff's Office: 71 for 2025, 68 for 2024, 69 for 2023, 75 for 2022, 112 for 2021 and 77 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Kingman: 35 for 2023, 30 for 2022, 46 for 2021, 46 for 2020 and 64 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 104 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 104 in 2023 against 105 in 2022, down 1 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kingman County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kingman 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 11 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 13 beds, and it ran at 85 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 Kingman County Sheriff's Office at kingmancountysheriff.com/detention/current-inmates (page title: Current Inmates | Kingman County Kansas Sheriff's 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 Kingman County
Whether someone was arrested in Kingman County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Kingman County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kingman County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kingmancoks.org/2161/District-Court, phone 620-532-5151); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kingmancoks.org/2157/County-Attorney, phone 800-432-2310).
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 Kingman 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 Kingman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Kingman: 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, 800-432-2310, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kingman County District Court, through the court records page at kingmancoks.org/2161/District-Court, phone 620-532-5151.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Kingman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the seven cities in Kingman County: Kingman. Norwich, Cunningham, Zenda, Spivey, Nashville and Penalosa 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 Kingman County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kingman County each year?
The Kingman County Sheriff's Office reported 71 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Kingman County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 104 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kingman County?
Look on the custody page of the Kingman County Sheriff's Office at kingmancountysheriff.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Kingman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kingman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kingman 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 Kingman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kingman 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 Kingman 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.