Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 September 26, 2026.
Florence, Kentucky, in Boone County, has about 34,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Commonwealth's Attorney files charges, a case in the Boone Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Florence public records, Boone County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Florence
The FBI lists Florence with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Florence Police Department. It reported 1,765 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 Boone County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,555 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Boone County: Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (other).
How Many Arrests Florence Reports
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.
- Florence: 1,765 for 2025, 1,959 for 2024, 2,244 for 2023, 2,146 for 2022, 2,087 for 2021 and 1,965 for 2020.
Florence's 1,765 arrests in 2025 were down 9.9 percent from 1,959 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Florence reported 1,115 arrests, against 1,272 in the same months of 2025.
Across Boone County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,320 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Florence Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Florence 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 480 people on an average day, down from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 500 beds, and it is running at 95 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Boone County Sheriff's Office at apps6.boonecountyky.org/Jail/InmateInformation (page title: Boone County Jail Inmate List), 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 Kentucky Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at kool.corrections.ky.gov/.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Florence
Whether someone was arrested in Florence, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Boone County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Boone 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/Boone.aspx, phone 859-448-2900).
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 Florence
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 Florence police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at florence-ky.gov/faqs (page title: FAQs | City of Florence), phone (859) 371-5491, 8100 Ewing Boulevard, Florence, KY 41042, Monday-Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Boone County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Boone Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 859-448-2900.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at boonecountykysheriff.com/open-records-2 (page title: Open Records | Boone County Sheriff's Office).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Boone County guide covers every agency in the county: Boone County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Florence each year?
Florence reported 1,765 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Florence?
Look on the custody page of the Boone County Sheriff's Office at apps6.boonecountyky.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Florence booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Boone County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Florence?
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 Florence?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Florence police for its own arrests, the Boone 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 boonecountykysheriff.com/open-records-2.
Is this the official Florence 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.