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 September 30, 2026.
Rockcastle County, Kentucky, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Rockcastle 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 Rockcastle 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: Rockcastle County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Rockcastle County
The Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Rockcastle County. It reported 147 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Rockcastle County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Mount Vernon, 2,458 residents: 198 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brodhead, 1,112 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Livingston, 165 residents: 0 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 Rockcastle 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.
- Mount Vernon: 198 for 2025, 230 for 2024, 344 for 2023, 296 for 2022, 297 for 2021 and 346 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office: 147 for 2025, 138 for 2024, 80 for 2023, 92 for 2022, 215 for 2021 and 362 for 2020.
- Brodhead: 3 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 27 for 2022, 35 for 2021 and 64 for 2020.
- Livingston: 0 for 2025, 3 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 7 for 2021 and 41 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 348 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 348 in 2025 against 376 in 2024, down 7.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 160 arrests, against 210 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Rockcastle County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Rockcastle 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 62 people on an average day, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 73 beds, and it is running at 85 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 Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office at sheriff-rockcastlecounty.ky.gov/Pages/index.aspx (page title: Rockcastle County Sheriff), phone (606) 256-2032, 205 East Main Street Mount Vernon, KY 40456, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Rockcastle County
For Rockcastle County the place to look is the case index of the Rockcastle 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/Rockcastle.aspx, phone 606-256-2581).
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 Rockcastle 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 Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (606) 256-2032.
- An arrest in Mount Vernon, Brodhead or Livingston: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Rockcastle Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 606-256-2581.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Rockcastle County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Rockcastle County: Mount Vernon, Brodhead and Livingston.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Rockcastle Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Rockcastle County each year?
Mount Vernon reported 198 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 348 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Rockcastle County?
Ask the Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office at (606) 256-2032; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff-rockcastlecounty.ky.gov.
Where are people arrested in Rockcastle County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Rockcastle 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 Rockcastle County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Rockcastle 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 Rockcastle 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.