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 9, 2026.
Boyle County, Kentucky, has about 31,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Boyle County Sheriff's Office and three city agencies. 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 Boyle 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: Boyle County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Boyle County
The Boyle County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Boyle County. It reported 375 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Boyle County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Danville, 17,562 residents: 650 arrests reported for 2025.
- Junction City, 2,329 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Perryville, 803 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Boyle 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.
- Danville: 650 for 2025, 715 for 2024, 674 for 2023, 691 for 2022, 622 for 2021 and 758 for 2020.
- Boyle County Sheriff's Office: 375 for 2025, 469 for 2024, 711 for 2023, 440 for 2022, 658 for 2021 and 604 for 2020.
- Perryville: 4 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 7 for 2020.
- Junction City: 0 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 16 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,029 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,029 in 2025 against 1,186 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 493 arrests, against 621 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Boyle County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Boyle 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 110 people on an average day, down from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 220 beds, and it is running at 49 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 Boyle County Sheriff's Office at boylecountyky.gov/189/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Boyle County, KY), phone 859-238-1123, 321 W Main Street Room 103 Danville, KY 40422, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Boyle County
Whether someone was arrested in Boyle County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Boyle 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/Boyle.aspx, phone 859-239-7442); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at amnews.com/2024/05/22/johnson-wins-local-race-for-commonwealths-att...).
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 Boyle 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 Boyle County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 859-238-1123.
- An arrest in Danville, Junction City or Perryville: 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Boyle Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 859-239-7442.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at boylecountyky.gov/239/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Boyle County, KY).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Boyle County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Boyle County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Boyle County: Danville, Junction City and Perryville.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Boyle Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Boyle County each year?
Danville reported 650 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,029 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Boyle County?
Ask the Boyle County Sheriff's Office at 859-238-1123; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at boylecountyky.gov/189/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Boyle County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Boyle County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Boyle 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 Boyle County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Boyle 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at boylecountyky.gov/239/Open-Records-Request.
Is this the official Boyle 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.