Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. 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.
Wallace County, Kansas, has about 1,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wallace County Sheriff's Office. 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 Wallace County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it.
This guide covers who makes arrests, arrest counts, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Wallace County public records, Kansas arrest records, Kansas inmate search and Kansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wallace County
The Wallace County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wallace County.
Arrest Counts on File for Wallace County
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For Wallace County the counts on file are partial: Wallace County Sheriff's Office has sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wallace County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wallace 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 2019 the jail held about 3 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 3 beds, and it ran at 100 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 Wallace County Sheriff's Office at wallacecountysheriff.com (page title: Wallace County Jail Roster Lookup, KS, Inmate Search), 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 Wallace County
An arrest in Wallace County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Wallace 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 Wallace County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Wallace County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at wallacecountyks.gov (page title: Wallace County Register of Deeds Open Records Request ...).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Wallace County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Wallace County with an arrest reporting agency of its own.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Wallace County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are people arrested in Wallace County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wallace County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wallace 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 Wallace County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wallace 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 wallacecountyks.gov.
Is this the official Wallace 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.