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.
Saline County, Kansas, has about 53,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Saline County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Saline 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: Saline County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Saline County
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Saline County. It reported 919 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Saline County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Salina, 46,109 residents: 1,358 arrests reported for 2025.
- Assaria, 424 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Saline 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.
- Salina: 1,358 for 2025, 1,509 for 2024, 1,963 for 2023, 1,846 for 2022, 2,008 for 2021 and 1,983 for 2020.
- Saline County Sheriff's Office: 919 for 2025, 863 for 2024, 1,002 for 2023, 1,245 for 2022 and 1,330 for 2021.
- Assaria: 0 for 2024 and 0 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,277 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,277 in 2025 against 2,372 in 2024, down 4 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,349 arrests, against 1,311 in the same months of 2025.
Assaria reported only part of 2025 (4 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Saline County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Saline 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 2022 the jail held about 250 people, down from about 270 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 172 beds, and it ran at 155 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 Saline County Sheriff's Office at salinecountyks.gov/Sheriff-Office/Online-Search/Housed-Inmates (page title: Sheriff Office Housed Inmates Search | Saline County | Saline County), 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 Saline County
For Saline 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 Saline 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 Saline County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Salina or Assaria: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Saline County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the six cities in Saline County: Salina and Assaria. Gypsum, Brookville, Smolan and New Cambria 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 Saline County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Saline County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Salina (46,109)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Saline County each year?
Salina reported 1,358 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,277 between them.
Where are people arrested in Saline County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saline County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Saline 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 Saline County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Saline 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 Saline 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.