Wilmore Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Wilmore

The FBI lists Wilmore with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Wilmore Police Department. It reported 73 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 Jessamine County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 668 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Jessamine County: R.J. Corman Railroad (other).

How Many Arrests Wilmore 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.

• Wilmore: 73 for 2025, 65 for 2024, 94 for 2022, 78 for 2021 and 156 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.

Wilmore's 73 arrests in 2025 were up 12 percent from 65 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Wilmore reported 35 arrests, against 48 in the same months of 2025.

Across Jessamine County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,813 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Wilmore Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wilmore 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 130 people on an average day, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 137 beds, and it is running at 93 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 Jessamine County Sheriff's Office at jessamineky.gov/other-elected-officials/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Jessamine County, Kentucky), phone (859) 885-4139, 101 North Main Street Nicholasville, KY 40356, Monday - Friday 8AM to 4PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Wilmore

For Wilmore the place to look is the case index of the Jessamine 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/Jessamine.aspx, phone 859-885-4531).

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 Wilmore

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 Wilmore police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at wilmore.org/police (page title: Wilmore), phone 859-858-8955, 700 Capital Ave., Frankfort, KY 40601-3449, Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 3:30pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (859) 885-4139.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Jessamine Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 859-885-4531.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jessamineky.gov/open-records-requests (page title: Open Records Requests | Jessamine County, Kentucky).
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

The Jessamine County guide covers every agency in the county: Jessamine County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Wilmore each year?

Wilmore reported 73 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Wilmore?

Ask the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office at (859) 885-4139; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at jessamineky.gov.

Where are people arrested in Wilmore booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jessamine County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Wilmore?

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 Wilmore?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Wilmore police for its own arrests, the Jessamine 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 jessamineky.gov/open-records-requests.

Is this the official Wilmore 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.