Ashland Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Ashland

The FBI lists Ashland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ashland Police Department. It reported 1,109 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

Outside the city, the Boyd County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 741 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Boyd County: Northeast Kentucky Drug Task Force (other).

How Many Arrests Ashland Reports

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.

• Ashland: 1,109 for 2025, 1,159 for 2024, 1,319 for 2023, 1,315 for 2022, 1,377 for 2021 and 1,194 for 2020.

Ashland's 1,109 arrests in 2025 were down 4.3 percent from 1,159 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Ashland reported 696 arrests, against 743 in the same months of 2025.

Across Boyd County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,924 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Ashland Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Ashland 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.

So far in 2026 the jail has held about 280 people on an average day, down from about 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 206 beds, and it is running at 135 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Boyd County Sheriff's Office at boydcountyky.gov/212/Boyd-County-Sheriffs-Office (page title: Boyd County Sheriff's Office | Boyd County, KY), phone 606-739-5135, 2900 Louisa Street Suite 1 Catlettsburg, KY 41129, Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.

A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Kentucky Department of Corrections lists its inmates at kool.corrections.ky.gov/.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Ashland

For Ashland the place to look is the case index of the Boyd Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Pages/Boyd.aspx, phone 606-739-4131).

Kentucky is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25 a search, through the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts. 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 Ashland

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying, 10 cents a page for standard copies.

• An arrest by the Ashland police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ashlandky.gov/departments/police/online_reporting/open_records_requ... (page title: Ashland, KY), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Boyd County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 606-739-5135.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Boyd Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-739-4131.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at boydcountyky.gov/185/Open-Records-Requests (page title: Open Records Requests | Boyd County, KY).
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

The Boyd County guide covers every agency in the county: Boyd County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Ashland each year?

Ashland reported 1,109 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ashland?

Ask the Boyd County Sheriff's Office at 606-739-5135; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at boydcountyky.gov.

Where are people arrested in Ashland booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Boyd County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Ashland?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Kentucky Open Records Act.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Ashland?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Ashland police for its own arrests, the Boyd County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at boydcountyky.gov/185/Open-Records-Requests.

Is this the official Ashland website?

No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.