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.
Pawnee County, Kansas, has about 6,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pawnee 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 Pawnee 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: Pawnee County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pawnee County
The Pawnee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pawnee County. It reported 29 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Pawnee County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Larned, 3,598 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Pawnee 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.
- Larned: 38 for 2025, 60 for 2024, 75 for 2023, 53 for 2022, 62 for 2021 and 48 for 2020.
- Pawnee County Sheriff's Office: 29 for 2024, 29 for 2021 and 18 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 89 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 60 in 2024 against 75 in 2023, down 20 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pawnee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pawnee 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 8 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 15 beds, and it ran at 53 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 Pawnee County Sheriff's Office at pawneecountykansas.com/185/Sheriff (page title: Pawnee County Sheriff | Pawnee County, KS), phone 620-285-2211, 116 W 8th Street Larned, KS 67550, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Pawnee County
Whether someone was arrested in Pawnee 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 pawneecountykansas.com/176/Attorney, phone 620-285-2139).
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 Pawnee 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 Pawnee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 620-285-2211.
- An arrest in Larned: 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, 620-285-2139, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pawnee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Pawnee County: Larned. Burdett, Garfield and Rozel 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 Pawnee County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pawnee County each year?
Larned reported 38 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Pawnee County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 89 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pawnee County?
Ask the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office at 620-285-2211; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pawneecountykansas.com/185/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Pawnee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pawnee 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 Pawnee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pawnee 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 Pawnee 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.