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 on September 24, 2026.
Bath County, Kentucky, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bath 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 Bath 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: Bath County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bath County
The Bath County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bath County. It reported 78 arrests for 2025.
One city in Bath County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Owingsville, 1,589 residents: 112 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Bath County
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.
- Bath County Sheriff's Office: 78 for 2025, 122 for 2024, 139 for 2023, 136 for 2022, 265 for 2021 and 165 for 2020.
- Owingsville: 112 for 2023, 82 for 2021, 97 for 2020 and 119 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 251 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 139 in 2023 against 136 in 2022, up 2.2 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bath County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bath County 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.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 55 people, down from about 57 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 36 beds, and it ran at 154 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Bath County
For Bath County the place to look is the case index of the Bath 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/Bath.aspx, phone 606-674-2186).
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 Bath County
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 Bath County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Owingsville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bath Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-674-2186.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Bath County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Bath County: Owingsville. Sharpsburg and Salt Lick have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bath Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bath County each year?
The Bath County Sheriff's Office reported 78 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Bath County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 251 between them.
Where are people arrested in Bath County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bath County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bath 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 Bath County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bath 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 Bath 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.