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.
Reno County, Kansas, has about 61,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Reno County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and two other 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 Reno 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: Reno County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Reno County
The Reno County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Reno County. It reported 677 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Reno County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Hutchinson, 39,561 residents: 1,386 arrests reported for 2025.
- South Hutchinson, 2,506 residents.
- Buhler, 1,315 residents.
- Haven, 1,168 residents: 29 arrests reported for 2019.
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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Reno County: the Nickerson/South Hutchinson Unified School District and Reno County Drug Enforcement Unit (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Reno 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.
- Hutchinson: 1,386 for 2025, 1,470 for 2024, 1,603 for 2023, 1,609 for 2022, 1,435 for 2020 and 1,523 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Reno County Sheriff's Office: 677 for 2025, 721 for 2024, 760 for 2023, 821 for 2022, 773 for 2020 and 1,013 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Haven: 29 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,063 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,063 in 2025 against 2,191 in 2024, down 5.8 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,038 arrests, against 996 in the same months of 2025.
Buhler reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Reno County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Reno 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 2023 the jail held about 220 people, up from about 190 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 250 beds, and it ran at 90 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 Reno County Sheriff's Office at publicsafety.renocountyks.gov/housed-search?tab=all (page title: Corrections Housed | Reno County Public Safety), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Reno County
For Reno 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 Reno 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 Reno County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Hutchinson, South Hutchinson, Buhler or Haven: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Nickerson/South Hutchinson Unified School District or Reno County Drug Enforcement Unit: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Reno County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the 15 cities in Reno County: Hutchinson, South Hutchinson, Buhler and Haven. Nickerson, Pretty Prairie, Arlington, The Highlands, Turon, Sylvia, Partridge, Plevna, Abbyville, Willowbrook and Langdon 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 Reno County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Reno County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Hutchinson (39,561)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Reno County each year?
Hutchinson reported 1,386 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,063 between them.
Where are people arrested in Reno County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Reno County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Reno 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 Reno County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Reno 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 Reno 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.