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.
Sedgwick County, Kansas, has about 536,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, 18 city agencies and four campus, state or 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 Sedgwick 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: Sedgwick County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sedgwick County
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sedgwick County. It reported 1,596 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 18 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Wichita, 400,991 residents: 9,871 arrests reported for 2025.
- Derby, 26,604 residents: 595 arrests reported for 2022.
- Haysville, 11,406 residents: 195 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bel Aire, 10,066 residents: 52 arrests reported for 2025.
- Park City, 9,110 residents: 215 arrests reported for 2025.
- Valley Center, 7,416 residents: 217 arrests reported for 2022.
- Maize, 7,059 residents: 148 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mulvane, 7,016 residents: 124 arrests reported for 2025.
- Goddard, 6,009 residents: 98 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clearwater, 2,697 residents: 126 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kechi, 2,388 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2021.
- Cheney, 2,174 residents: 17 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.
The Sedgwick Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Sedgwick County, so its arrests are not broken out for Sedgwick County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Sedgwick County: Wichita State University (campus police); Sedwick County Fire Department Arson Investigation and the Goddard Unified School District (other); the Gilley's Park City Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sedgwick 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.
- Wichita: 9,871 for 2025, 9,484 for 2024, 9,627 for 2023, 9,495 for 2022, 8,326 for 2021 and 9,618 for 2020.
- Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office: 1,596 for 2025, 1,636 for 2024, 879 for 2022, 828 for 2021, 1,049 for 2020 and 689 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Eastborough: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Park City: 215 for 2025, 251 for 2023, 437 for 2022, 364 for 2021 and 288 for 2020; 2024 is missing months.
- Haysville: 195 for 2025, 196 for 2024, 223 for 2022, 315 for 2021, 388 for 2020 and 327 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Maize: 148 for 2025, 117 for 2024, 156 for 2023, 130 for 2022, 167 for 2021 and 153 for 2020.
- Clearwater: 126 for 2025, 76 for 2024, 70 for 2023, 121 for 2022, 114 for 2021 and 95 for 2020.
- Mulvane: 124 for 2025, 146 for 2024, 187 for 2023, 192 for 2022, 191 for 2021 and 179 for 2020.
- Goddard: 98 for 2025, 138 for 2024, 165 for 2023, 134 for 2022, 91 for 2021 and 53 for 2020.
- Bel Aire: 52 for 2025, 31 for 2024, 52 for 2023, 87 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 68 for 2020.
- Cheney: 17 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 9 for 2021 and 26 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Derby: 595 for 2022, 532 for 2021, 511 for 2020 and 406 for 2019.
Together, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 13,594 arrests that year. The ten of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 13,379 in 2025 against 12,983 in 2024, up 3.1 percent.
Through April 2026, the nine agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,816 arrests, against 4,604 in the same months of 2025.
Derby, Colwich, Garden Plain and Mount Hope reported only part of 2025 (1 month, 6 months, 2 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sedgwick County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sedgwick 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 2024 the jail held about 1,170 people, down from about 1,240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,406 beds, and it ran at 84 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office at ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/inmatesearch (page title: Inmate Search | Sedgwick County, Kansas), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Sedgwick County
An arrest in Sedgwick County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 sedgwickcounty.org/district-attorney).
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 Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Wichita, Derby, Haysville, Bel Aire, Park City, Valley Center or another of the cities listed above: 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 Wichita State University, Sedwick County Fire Department Arson Investigation or the Goddard Unified School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sedgwickcounty.org/fire/forms/records-request (page title: Records Request | Sedgwick County, Kansas).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sedgwick County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 18 of the 19 cities in Sedgwick County: the twelve named above and Colwich, Garden Plain, Andale, Mount Hope, Eastborough and Bentley. Viola has 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 Sedgwick County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Sedgwick County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sedgwick County each year?
Wichita reported 9,871 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 11 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 13,594 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sedgwick County?
Look on the custody page of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office at ssc.sedgwickcounty.org/inmatesearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Sedgwick County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sedgwick 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 sedgwickcounty.org/fire/forms/records-request.
Is this the official Sedgwick 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.