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.
Sherman County, Kansas, has about 5,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sherman 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 Sherman 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: Sherman County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sherman County
The Sherman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sherman County. It reported 65 arrests for 2025.
One city in Sherman County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Goodland, 4,394 residents: 148 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 Sherman 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.
- Goodland: 148 for 2025, 197 for 2024, 246 for 2023, 145 for 2022, 124 for 2021 and 130 for 2020.
- Sherman County Sheriff's Office: 65 for 2025, 62 for 2024 and 29 for 2020; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 213 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 213 in 2025 against 259 in 2024, down 18 percent.
Through May 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 62 arrests, against 77 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sherman County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sherman 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 19 people, down from about 24 in 2018. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Sherman County Sheriff's Office at shermancountyks.gov/sheriff-inmate-information (page title: Inmate Information | Sherman County Sheriff), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Sherman County
An arrest in Sherman County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Sherman 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.
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 Sherman 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 Sherman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Goodland: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sherman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Sherman County: Goodland. Kanorado 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 Sherman County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sherman County each year?
Goodland reported 148 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 213 between them.
Where are people arrested in Sherman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sherman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sherman 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 Sherman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sherman 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 Sherman 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.