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 28, 2026.
Shepherdsville, Kentucky, in Bullitt County, has about 15,000 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 Bullitt 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: Shepherdsville public records, Bullitt County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Shepherdsville
The FBI lists Shepherdsville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Shepherdsville Police Department. It reported 515 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 Bullitt County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 883 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Bullitt County: Bullitt County Public Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Shepherdsville 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.
- Shepherdsville: 515 for 2025, 525 for 2024, 593 for 2023, 483 for 2022, 517 for 2021 and 425 for 2020.
Shepherdsville's 515 arrests in 2025 were down 1.9 percent from 525 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Shepherdsville reported 323 arrests, against 336 in the same months of 2025.
Across Bullitt County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,912 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shepherdsville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Shepherdsville 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 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 323 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 jail page of the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office at bullittky.com/?page_id=810 (page title: Detention Center), phone (502) 543-7263, 1671 South Preston Hwy PO Box 768 Shepherdsville, KY 40165, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
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 Shepherdsville
For Shepherdsville the place to look is the case index of the Bullitt 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/Bullitt.aspx, phone 502-543-7104).
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 Shepherdsville
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 Shepherdsville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at shepherdsvilleky.gov/government/city-departments/police-department/... (page title: How to Request Police Records in Shepherdsville, KY), phone (502) 215-1588, 634 Conestoga Parkway Shepherdsville, KY 40165, Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (502) 543-7263.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bullitt Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 502-543-7104.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Bullitt County guide covers every agency in the county: Bullitt County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shepherdsville each year?
Shepherdsville reported 515 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Shepherdsville?
Ask the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office at (502) 543-7263; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bullittky.com/?page_id=810.
Where are people arrested in Shepherdsville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bullitt County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Shepherdsville?
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 Shepherdsville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shepherdsville police for its own arrests, the Bullitt 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 Shepherdsville 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.