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.
Calloway County, Kentucky, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Calloway County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one campus 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 Calloway 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: Calloway County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Calloway County
The Calloway County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Calloway County. It reported 548 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Calloway County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Murray, 18,567 residents: 519 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Calloway County: Murray State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Calloway 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.
- Calloway County Sheriff's Office: 548 for 2025, 764 for 2024, 850 for 2023, 769 for 2022, 740 for 2021 and 641 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Murray: 519 for 2025, 626 for 2024, 690 for 2023, 558 for 2022, 655 for 2021 and 451 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,067 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,067 in 2025 against 1,390 in 2024, down 23 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 468 arrests, against 728 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Calloway County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Calloway 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 140 people on an average day, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 163 beds, and it is running at 83 percent of it. 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 Calloway County
For Calloway County the place to look is the case index of the Calloway 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/Calloway.aspx, phone 270-753-2714).
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 Calloway 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 Calloway County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Murray: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Murray State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Calloway Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 270-753-2714.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at calloway.clerkinfo.net/?page_id=1882 (page title: Open Records Request | Calloway County KY Clerk).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Calloway County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Calloway County: Murray. Hazel has 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 Calloway Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Calloway County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Murray (18,567)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Calloway County each year?
The Calloway County Sheriff's Office reported 548 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,067 between them.
Where are people arrested in Calloway County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Calloway County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Calloway 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 Calloway County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Calloway 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 calloway.clerkinfo.net/?page_id=1882.
Is this the official Calloway 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.