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

Who Makes Arrests in Georgetown

The FBI lists Georgetown with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Georgetown Police Department. It reported 1,509 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 Scott County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,030 arrests for 2025.

How Many Arrests Georgetown 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.

• Georgetown: 1,509 for 2025, 1,515 for 2024, 1,360 for 2023, 1,426 for 2022, 1,045 for 2021 and 761 for 2020.

Georgetown's 1,509 arrests in 2025 were down 0.4 percent from 1,515 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Georgetown reported 843 arrests, against 1,056 in the same months of 2025.

Across Scott County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,543 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Georgetown Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Georgetown 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 96 people on an average day, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 86 beds, and it is running at 112 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

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 Georgetown

Whether someone was arrested in Georgetown, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Scott 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/Scott.aspx, phone 502-863-0474); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/commonwealths-attorney-race-for-bo...).

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 Georgetown

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 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 Georgetown police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at georgetownky.gov/2251/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Georgetown, KY), 100 N. Court Street, Georgetown, KY 40324, Monday through Friday, except holidays, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Scott County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Scott Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 502-863-0474.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at scottky.gov/open-records-request (page title: Open Records Request | Scott County Kentucky).
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Georgetown each year?

Georgetown reported 1,509 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Georgetown booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Georgetown?

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 Georgetown?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Georgetown police for its own arrests, the Scott 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 scottky.gov/open-records-request.

Is this the official Georgetown 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.