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.
Labette County, Kansas, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Labette County Sheriff's Office and four 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 Labette 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: Labette County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Labette County
The Labette County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Labette County. It reported 107 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Parsons, 9,328 residents: 482 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oswego, 1,625 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2025.
- Altamont, 1,047 residents.
- Chetopa, 905 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 Labette 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.
- Parsons: 482 for 2025, 443 for 2024, 509 for 2023 and 289 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Labette County Sheriff's Office: 107 for 2025, 75 for 2024, 58 for 2023, 56 for 2022, 52 for 2020 and 94 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Oswego: 16 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 31 for 2023, 27 for 2021, 14 for 2020 and 21 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 605 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 605 in 2025 against 541 in 2024, up 12 percent.
Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 140 arrests, against 127 in the same months of 2025.
Altamont reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Labette County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Labette 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 2022 the jail held about 75 people, down from about 78 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 84 beds, and it ran at 93 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 Labette County Sheriff's Office at labettecountykssheriff.org (page title: Labette County Sheriff's Office), phone 620.795.2565, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Labette County
Whether someone was arrested in Labette County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Labette County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at labettecounty.com/court); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at labettecountyattorney.com, phone (620) 421-6370).
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 Labette 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 Labette County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 620.795.2565.
- An arrest in Parsons, Oswego, Altamont or Chetopa: 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, (620) 421-6370, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Labette County District Court, through the court records page at labettecounty.com/court.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at labettecounty.com/open-records (page title: Open Records | LABETTE COUNTY, KANSAS).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Labette County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Labette County: Parsons, Oswego, Altamont and Chetopa. Edna, Mound Valley, Bartlett and Labette 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 Labette County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Labette County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Parsons (9,328)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Labette County each year?
Parsons reported 482 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 605 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Labette County?
Ask the Labette County Sheriff's Office at 620.795.2565; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at labettecountykssheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Labette County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Labette County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Labette 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 Labette County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Labette 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 labettecounty.com/open-records.
Is this the official Labette 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.