Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 1, 2026.
Anderson County, Kentucky, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Anderson County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 Anderson Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Anderson County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Anderson County
The Anderson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Anderson County. It reported 254 arrests for 2025.
One city in Anderson County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Lawrenceburg, 12,189 residents: 293 arrests reported for 2024.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Anderson County
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.
- Lawrenceburg: 293 for 2024, 294 for 2023, 243 for 2022, 316 for 2021, 346 for 2020 and 469 for 2019.
- Anderson County Sheriff's Office: 254 for 2025, 248 for 2024, 311 for 2023, 335 for 2022, 375 for 2021 and 355 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 541 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 541 in 2024 against 605 in 2023, down 11 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Anderson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Anderson County 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.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 74 people, down from about 81 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 82 beds, and it ran at 90 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Anderson County Sheriff's Office at tnac.isoms.cloud:8001/portal/Jail (page title: Inmates | ISOMS Portal), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
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 Anderson County
An arrest in Anderson County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Anderson 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/Anderson.aspx, phone 502-839-3508); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at andersoncounty.ky.gov/government/Pages/Attorney.aspx, phone (502) 839-5164).
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 Anderson County
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 Anderson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Lawrenceburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Commonwealth's Attorney, (502) 839-5164, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Anderson Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 502-839-3508.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Anderson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Lawrenceburg, the one city in Anderson County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Anderson Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Anderson County each year?
Lawrenceburg reported 293 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 541 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Anderson County?
Ask the Anderson County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at tnac.isoms.cloud:8001/portal/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Anderson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Anderson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Anderson County?
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 Anderson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Anderson County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Anderson County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.