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.
Marion County, Kansas, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Marion County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Marion 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: Marion County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Marion County
The Marion County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Marion County. It reported 43 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Marion County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Hillsboro, 2,673 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2025.
- Marion, 1,890 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Peabody, 916 residents: 41 arrests reported for 2019.
- Goessel, 552 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2019.
- Florence, 381 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Burns, 231 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 Marion 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.
- Florence: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Marion County Sheriff's Office: 43 for 2025, 28 for 2024, 67 for 2023, 79 for 2022, 42 for 2021 and 48 for 2020.
- Hillsboro: 22 for 2025, 26 for 2024, 16 for 2023, 31 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 34 for 2020.
- Marion: 17 for 2025, 12 for 2021, 17 for 2020 and 17 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Peabody: 41 for 2019.
- Goessel: 3 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,234 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,217 in 2025 against 1,206 in 2024, up 0.9 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 646 arrests, against 713 in the same months of 2025.
Peabody reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Marion County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Marion 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 2021 the jail held about 11 people, up from about 10 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 30 beds, and it ran at 33 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 Marion County Sheriff's Office at marioncoks.net/257/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Marion County, KS), phone (866) 574-8463, 202 S 4th St Marion, KS 66861, 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 Marion County
Whether someone was arrested in Marion County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Marion County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at 8thkscourts.gov/172/District-Court, phone (620) 382-2104); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at marioncoks.net/194/Attorney, phone (620) 382-2243).
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 Marion 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 Marion County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (866) 574-8463.
- An arrest in Hillsboro, Marion, Peabody, Goessel, Florence or Burns: 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, (620) 382-2243, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Marion County District Court, through the court records page at 8thkscourts.gov/172/District-Court, phone (620) 382-2104.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Marion County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 12 cities in Marion County: Hillsboro, Marion, Peabody, Goessel, Florence and Burns. Lincolnville, Lehigh, Tampa, Durham, Ramona and Lost Springs 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 Marion County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Marion County each year?
Florence reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,234 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Marion County?
Ask the Marion County Sheriff's Office at (866) 574-8463; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at marioncoks.net/257/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Marion County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Marion County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Marion 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 Marion County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Marion 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 Marion 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.