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.
Morris County, Kansas, has about 5,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Morris 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 Morris 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: Morris County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Morris County
The Morris County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Morris County. It reported 25 arrests for 2025.
One city in Morris County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Council Grove, 2,101 residents: 29 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 Morris 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.
- Council Grove: 29 for 2023, 44 for 2022, 2 for 2021, 19 for 2020 and 5 for 2019.
- Morris County Sheriff's Office: 25 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2022, 1 for 2021, 0 for 2020 and 1 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 44 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2022 and 2021 complete reported 44 in 2022 against 3 in 2021.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morris County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Morris 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 3 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 3 beds, and it ran at 100 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 Morris County Sheriff's Office at morriscountyks.org/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Morris County, KS), 501 W. Main Street Council Grove, KS 66846, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Morris County
For Morris County the place to look is Kansas District Court Public Access Portal, the Kansas courts' statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Morris 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 Morris County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Council Grove: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Morris County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the seven cities in Morris County: Council Grove. White City, Dwight, Wilsey, Parkerville, Latimer and Dunlap 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 Morris County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morris County each year?
Council Grove reported 29 arrests to the FBI for 2023. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Morris County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 44 between them.
Where are people arrested in Morris County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Morris County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morris 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 Morris County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morris 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 Morris 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.