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.
Elliott County, Kentucky, has about 7,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Elliott County Sheriff's Office. 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 Elliott 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: Elliott County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Elliott County
The Elliott County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Elliott County. It reported 18 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Elliott County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Elliott County Sheriff's Office: 18 for 2025, 26 for 2024, 132 for 2023, 129 for 2022, 40 for 2021 and 31 for 2020.
Through July 2026, Elliott County Sheriff's Office reported 9 arrests, against 14 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Elliott County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Elliott 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 17 people, down from about 21 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 14 beds, and it ran at 128 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 Elliott County
For Elliott County the place to look is the case index of the Elliott 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/Elliott.aspx, phone 606-738-5232).
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 Elliott 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 Elliott County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Elliott Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-738-5232.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Elliott County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Elliott County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Elliott Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Elliott County each year?
The Elliott County Sheriff's Office reported 18 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Elliott County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Elliott County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Elliott 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 Elliott County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Elliott 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 Elliott 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.