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 9, 2026.
Mayfield, Kentucky, in Graves County, has about 9,800 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 Graves 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: Mayfield public records, Graves County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mayfield
The FBI lists Mayfield with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mayfield Police Department. It reported 449 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 Graves County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 537 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Graves County: Graves County Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Mayfield 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.
- Mayfield: 449 for 2025, 452 for 2024, 620 for 2023, 673 for 2022, 674 for 2021 and 704 for 2020.
Mayfield's 449 arrests in 2025 were down 0.7 percent from 452 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Mayfield reported 237 arrests, against 266 in the same months of 2025.
Across Graves County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 986 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mayfield Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Mayfield 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 35 people on an average day, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 80 beds, and it is running at 44 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Mayfield
An arrest in Mayfield can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Graves 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/Graves.aspx, phone 270-247-1733); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at gravescountyprosecutor.com).
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 Mayfield
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 Mayfield police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at mayfieldky.gov/departments/police_department/open_records_request.php (page title: City Of Mayfield | KY), phone 270-251-6252, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Graves 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 Graves Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 270-247-1733.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Graves County guide covers every agency in the county: Graves County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mayfield each year?
Mayfield reported 449 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Mayfield booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Graves County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mayfield?
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 Mayfield?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mayfield police for its own arrests, the Graves County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Mayfield 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.