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 4, 2026.
Union County, Kentucky, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Union County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Union 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: Union County public records, Kentucky arrest records, Kentucky inmate search and Kentucky criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Union County
The Union County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Union County. It reported 294 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Morganfield, 3,131 residents: 111 arrests reported for 2025.
- Uniontown, 893 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 Union 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.
- Union County Sheriff's Office: 294 for 2025, 287 for 2024, 281 for 2023, 304 for 2022, 372 for 2021 and 193 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Morganfield: 111 for 2025, 106 for 2024, 102 for 2023, 71 for 2022, 84 for 2021 and 100 for 2020.
- Uniontown: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 15 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 405 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 405 in 2025 against 393 in 2024, up 3.1 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 195 arrests, against 243 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Union County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Union 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 2020 the jail held about 23 people, down from about 58 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020 was 45 beds, and it ran at 51 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Union County Sheriff's Office at unioncountyky.org/local-government/union-county-sheriff (page title: Union County Sheriff | Union County, KY), phone (270) 389-1303, 100 West Main Street P.O. Box 30 Morganfield, KY 42437, Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Union County
For Union County the place to look is the case index of the Union 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/Union.aspx, phone 270-389-1811).
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 Union 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 Union County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (270) 389-1303.
- An arrest in Morganfield or Uniontown: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Union Circuit Court, through the court records page at kycourts.gov, phone 270-389-1811.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at unioncountyky.org (page title: Open Records Request | Union County, KY).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Union County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Union County: Morganfield and Uniontown. Sturgis and Waverly 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 Union Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Union County each year?
The Union County Sheriff's Office reported 294 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 405 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Union County?
Ask the Union County Sheriff's Office at (270) 389-1303; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at unioncountyky.org.
Where are people arrested in Union County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Union County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Union 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 Union County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Union 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 unioncountyky.org.
Is this the official Union 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.