SearchSystems Editorial

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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.

About this guide

Crestwood, Kentucky, in Oldham County, has about 6,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Kentucky the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Crestwood is kept and how it is seen.

This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.

Related guides: Crestwood public records, Oldham County criminal records, Crestwood arrest records, Crestwood warrants, Crestwood inmate search, Crestwood court records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.

Criminal Cases in the Oldham Circuit Court

In Kentucky the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Crestwood are heard by the Oldham Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $5,000, divorces and appeals from the district court; the District Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims, probate and juvenile matters, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Court Clerk.

For Oldham County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Pages/Oldham.aspx (page title: Oldham | Kentucky Court of Justice), phone 502-222-9837, 100 W. Main St. La Grange, KY 40031, Monday 8 a.m.-4 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.

Kentucky has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.

The Kentucky Criminal History and Your Own Copy

In Kentucky the public route to a statewide criminal record is the court system's own search: the Administrative Office of the Courts, not the state police, sells name-based criminal record reports to the public, at $25 a search. It covers cases that reached a court, not arrests that never did. The search is on the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts site.

Arrest Records Kept Locally in Crestwood

The Oldham County Sheriff's Office, the Oldham County Police Department and the agencies that report for La Grange and Pewee Valley keep the arrest records in and around Crestwood: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.

The Prospect Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Oldham County, so its arrests are not broken out for Oldham County here.

Together, the four agencies in Oldham County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 921 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.

The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Crestwood arrest records.

The Sex Offender Registry for Crestwood

Registered sex offenders living in Crestwood are listed on the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry, run by the Kentucky State Police at kspsor.state.ky.us. The registry is public and can be searched online.

Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.

Asking an Agency in Oldham County for a Record

An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.

Under the Kentucky Open Records Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying, 10 cents a page for standard copies. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oldhamcountyky.gov/openrecords (page title: Open Records Request | Oldham County Fiscal Court).

Frequently Asked Questions

Are criminal records public in Crestwood?

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.

Can I search Crestwood criminal cases online?

The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at kycourts.gov (page title: Oldham | Kentucky Court of Justice).

How do I get my own Kentucky criminal history?

Through the same court record report, run on yourself.

Is this the official Crestwood 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.