Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026.
Beatrice, Nebraska, in Gage County, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Gage County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Beatrice public records, Gage County arrest records, Nebraska arrest records and Nebraska inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Beatrice
The FBI lists Beatrice with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Beatrice Police Department. It reported 363 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Gage County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 59 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Gage County: the State Patrol in Gage County (state police).
How Many Arrests Beatrice Reports
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.
- Beatrice: 363 for 2025, 372 for 2024, 327 for 2023, 371 for 2022, 307 for 2021 and 363 for 2020.
Beatrice's 363 arrests in 2025 were down 2.4 percent from 372 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Beatrice reported 246 arrests, against 224 in the same months of 2025.
Across Gage County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 422 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Beatrice Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Beatrice 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 2019 the jail held about 41 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 28 beds, and it ran at 146 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 Gage County Sheriff's Office at gagecountyne.gov/sheriff-office (page title: Sheriff Office | Gage County), phone 402-223-5221, 612 Lincoln St. Beatrice, NE 68310, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services lists its inmates at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Beatrice
An arrest in Beatrice can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Gage County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at gagecountyne.gov/attorney-county, phone 402-223-1344).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/gage-county-court (page title: Gage County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 402-223-1323, belongs to a lower court, not to the Gage County District Court.
Statewide, Nebraska Trial Court Case Search is the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search.
Nebraska is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online, through the Nebraska State Patrol. 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 Beatrice
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 Nebraska Public Records Statutes the agency must answer within 4 business days, and it may charge copying, and staff time after the first four hours.
- An arrest by the Beatrice police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at beatrice.ne.gov/public-safety-emergency-services/city-attorney/publ... (page title: Public Records Request | City of Beatrice), phone (402) 228-5200, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Gage County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 402-223-5221.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 402-223-1344, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Gage County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/gage-county-court, phone 402-223-1323, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Request | Gage County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Gage County guide covers every agency in the county: Gage County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Beatrice each year?
Beatrice reported 363 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Beatrice?
Ask the Gage County Sheriff's Office at 402-223-5221; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov/sheriff-office.
Where are people arrested in Beatrice booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gage County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Beatrice?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Nebraska State Patrol: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Beatrice?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Beatrice police for its own arrests, the Gage County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gagecountyne.gov.
Is this the official Beatrice website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.