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.
Maysville, Kentucky, in Mason County, has about 8,700 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 Mason 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: Maysville public records, Mason County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Maysville
The FBI lists Maysville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Maysville Police Department. It reported 444 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 Mason County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 309 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Maysville 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.
- Maysville: 444 for 2025, 563 for 2024, 576 for 2023, 598 for 2022, 684 for 2021 and 470 for 2020.
Maysville's 444 arrests in 2025 were down 21 percent from 563 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Maysville reported 220 arrests, against 262 in the same months of 2025.
Across Mason County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 753 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Maysville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Maysville 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 150 people on an average day, up from about 76 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 131 beds, and it is running at 114 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 Mason County Sheriff's Office at masoncountydetention.com/mason_inmatelist.html (page title: Mason County Detention Center), 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 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 Maysville
An arrest in Maysville can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Mason County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Mason 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/Mason.aspx, phone 606-564-4340).
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 Maysville
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 Maysville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofmaysvilleky.gov/departments/police_department/meet_our_team/o... (page title: Maysville Chief of Police), phone 606-564-2566, 212 Government Street Maysville, KY 41056, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Mason County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Mason Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-564-4340.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Mason County guide covers every agency in the county: Mason County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Maysville each year?
Maysville reported 444 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Maysville?
Look on the custody page of the Mason County Sheriff's Office at masoncountydetention.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Maysville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Mason County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Maysville?
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 Maysville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Maysville police for its own arrests, the Mason 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 Maysville 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.