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.
Miami County, Kansas, has about 36,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Miami County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Miami 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: Miami County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Miami County
The Miami County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Miami County. It reported 111 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Paola, 5,835 residents: 159 arrests reported for 2025.
- Louisburg, 5,266 residents: 34 arrests reported for 2025.
- Osawatomie, 4,187 residents: 201 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.
The Spring Hill Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Miami County, so its arrests are not broken out for Miami County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Miami 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.
- Paola: 159 for 2025, 208 for 2024, 254 for 2023, 195 for 2022, 225 for 2021 and 174 for 2020.
- Miami County Sheriff's Office: 111 for 2025, 122 for 2024, 152 for 2022, 166 for 2021, 134 for 2020 and 91 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Louisburg: 34 for 2025, 58 for 2024, 57 for 2023, 48 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 46 for 2020.
- Osawatomie: 201 for 2023 and 119 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 304 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 304 in 2025 against 388 in 2024, down 22 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 187 arrests, against 135 in the same months of 2025.
Osawatomie reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Miami County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Miami 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 87 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 96 beds, and it ran at 91 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Miami County
Whether someone was arrested in Miami 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 miamicountyks.gov/163/County-Attorney, phone (913) 294-3181).
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 Miami 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 Miami County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Paola, Louisburg or Osawatomie: 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, (913) 294-3181, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at miamicountyks.gov/261/Request-a-Record (page title: Request a Record | Miami County, KS).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Miami County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Miami County: Paola, Louisburg and Osawatomie. Fontana has 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 Miami County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Miami County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Miami County each year?
Paola reported 159 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 304 between them.
Where are people arrested in Miami County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Miami County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Miami 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 Miami County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Miami 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 miamicountyks.gov/261/Request-a-Record.
Is this the official Miami 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.