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 30, 2026.
Gallatin County, Kentucky, has about 8,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gallatin 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 Gallatin 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: Gallatin County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gallatin County
The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gallatin County. It reported 748 arrests for 2025.
One city in Gallatin County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Warsaw, 1,758 residents: 42 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 Gallatin 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.
- Gallatin County Sheriff's Office: 748 for 2025, 683 for 2024, 357 for 2023, 440 for 2020 and 568 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Warsaw: 42 for 2025, 210 for 2024, 221 for 2023, 201 for 2022, 122 for 2021 and 92 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 790 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 790 in 2025 against 893 in 2024, down 12 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 411 arrests, against 530 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gallatin County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Gallatin 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 34 people. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 20 beds, and it ran at 170 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 Gallatin County
Whether someone was arrested in Gallatin County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gallatin 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/Gallatin.aspx, phone 859-567-5241); the Commonwealth's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at boonegallatinprosecutor.com).
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 Gallatin 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 Gallatin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Warsaw: 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 Gallatin Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 859-567-5241.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gallatin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Gallatin County: Warsaw. Glencoe and Sparta 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 Gallatin Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gallatin County each year?
The Gallatin County Sheriff's Office reported 748 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 790 between them.
Where are people arrested in Gallatin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gallatin 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 Gallatin 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.