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 October 2, 2026.
La Grange, Kentucky, in Oldham County, has about 11,000 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 Oldham 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: La Grange public records, Oldham County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in La Grange
The FBI lists La Grange with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as La Grange Police Department. It reported 141 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 Oldham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 292 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests La Grange 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.
- La Grange: 141 for 2025, 235 for 2024, 362 for 2023, 295 for 2022, 250 for 2021 and 172 for 2020.
La Grange's 141 arrests in 2025 were down 40 percent from 235 in 2024.
Through August 2026, La Grange reported 96 arrests, against 89 in the same months of 2025.
Across Oldham County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 921 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in La Grange Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in La Grange and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 260 people on an average day, down from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 330 beds, and it is running at 80 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 Oldham County Sheriff's Office at oldhamcountysheriff.com (page title: Oldham County Jail Roster Lookup, KY, 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 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 La Grange
Whether someone was arrested in La Grange, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Oldham County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Oldham 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/Oldham.aspx, phone 502-222-9837).
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 La Grange
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 La Grange police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lagrangeky.gov/openrecords (page title: Open Records Requests | City of La Grange Kentucky), phone 502-222-1433, 307 W Jefferson Street La Grange KY 40031, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Oldham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Oldham Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 502-222-9837.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oldhamcountyky.gov/openrecords (page title: Open Records Request | Oldham County Fiscal Court).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Oldham County guide covers every agency in the county: Oldham County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in La Grange each year?
La Grange reported 141 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in La Grange booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oldham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in La Grange?
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 La Grange?
From the agency that made the arrest: the La Grange police for its own arrests, the Oldham 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 oldhamcountyky.gov/openrecords.
Is this the official La Grange 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.