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.
Scott County, Kansas, has about 4,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Scott 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 Scott 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: Scott County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Scott County
The Scott County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Scott County. It reported 49 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Scott County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Scott City, 3,929 residents: 115 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 Scott 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.
- Scott City: 115 for 2025, 140 for 2024, 122 for 2023, 80 for 2022, 118 for 2021 and 85 for 2020.
- Scott County Sheriff's Office: 49 for 2024, 48 for 2023, 19 for 2020 and 16 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 189 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 189 in 2024 against 170 in 2023, up 11 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Scott County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Scott 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 11 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 16 beds, and it ran at 65 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Scott County
Whether someone was arrested in Scott 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 scottcountyks.com/elected-offices/attorney.html, phone 620-872-3600).
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 Scott 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 Scott County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Scott City: 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, 620-872-3600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at scottcityks.org (page title: Open Records Request | Scott City, KS).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Scott County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Scott City, the one city in Scott County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Scott County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Scott County each year?
Scott City reported 115 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Scott County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 189 between them.
Where are people arrested in Scott County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Scott County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Scott 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 Scott County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Scott 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at scottcityks.org.
Is this the official Scott 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.