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 September 30, 2026.
Osage County, Kansas, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Osage County Sheriff's Office and seven 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 Osage 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: Osage County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Osage County
The Osage County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Osage County. It reported 139 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside seven 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:
- Osage City, 2,799 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2025.
- Carbondale, 1,306 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2024.
- Lyndon, 1,037 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2019.
- Overbrook, 998 residents: 32 arrests reported for 2024.
- Burlingame, 939 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Scranton, 641 residents.
- Melvern, 345 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 Osage 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.
- Burlingame: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Osage County Sheriff's Office: 139 for 2025, 101 for 2024, 61 for 2023, 147 for 2022, 166 for 2021 and 125 for 2020.
- Osage City: 25 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 46 for 2023, 81 for 2022, 44 for 2021 and 39 for 2020.
- Overbrook: 32 for 2024.
- Carbondale: 7 for 2024, 12 for 2022 and 5 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Lyndon: 3 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,334 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,295 in 2024 against 1,253 in 2023, up 3.4 percent.
Lyndon reported only part of 2024 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Osage County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Osage 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 2019 the jail held about 18 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 33 beds, and it ran at 55 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 Osage County Sheriff's Office at osageco.org/298/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Osage County, KS), phone 785-828-3121, 131 W 14th Street Lyndon, KS 66451, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Osage County
An arrest in Osage County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Osage County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at osageco.org/m/directory/department?did=29); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at osageco.org/302/Osage-County-Attorneys-Office, phone 785-828-4812).
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 Osage 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 Osage County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 785-828-3121.
- An arrest in Osage City, Carbondale, Lyndon, Overbrook, Burlingame, Scranton or another of the cities listed above: 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, 785-828-4812, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Osage County District Court, through the court records page at osageco.org/m/directory/department?did=29.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Osage County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the nine cities in Osage County: Osage City, Carbondale, Lyndon, Overbrook, Burlingame, Scranton and Melvern. Quenemo and Olivet 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 Osage County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Osage County each year?
Burlingame reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Osage County sent in full, the five with every month on file reported 1,334 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Osage County?
Ask the Osage County Sheriff's Office at 785-828-3121; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at osageco.org/298/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Osage County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Osage County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Osage 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 Osage County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Osage 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 Osage 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.