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.
Somerset, Kentucky, in Pulaski County, has about 12,000 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 Pulaski 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: Somerset public records, Pulaski County arrest records, Kentucky arrest records and Kentucky inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Somerset
The FBI lists Somerset with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Somerset Police Department. It reported 991 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 Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,694 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pulaski County: Unlawful Narcotics Investigation Treatment and Education (state agency); Pulaski County Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Somerset 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.
- Somerset: 991 for 2025, 1,028 for 2024, 1,143 for 2023, 1,319 for 2022, 1,445 for 2021 and 930 for 2020.
Somerset's 991 arrests in 2025 were down 3.6 percent from 1,028 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Somerset reported 781 arrests, against 639 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pulaski County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,787 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Somerset Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Somerset 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 330 people on an average day, down from about 400 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 216 beds, and it is running at 154 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 Somerset
For Somerset the place to look is the case index of the Pulaski 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/Pulaski.aspx, phone 606-677-4029).
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 Somerset
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Somerset police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsomerset.com/police-divisions (page title: Police Divisions | City of Somerset, Kentucky), phone 606.678.5176, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pulaski Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-677-4029.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com (page title: NextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Pulaski County guide covers every agency in the county: Pulaski County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Somerset each year?
Somerset reported 991 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Somerset booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Somerset?
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 Somerset?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Somerset police for its own arrests, the Pulaski 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 pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Somerset 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.