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 October 2, 2026.
Papillion, Nebraska, in Sarpy County, has about 25,000 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 Sarpy 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: Papillion public records, Sarpy County arrest records, Nebraska arrest records and Nebraska inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Papillion
The FBI lists Papillion with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Papillion Police Department. It reported 482 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 Sarpy County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,137 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Sarpy County: the State Patrol in Sarpy County (state police).
How Many Arrests Papillion 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.
- Papillion: 482 for 2025, 508 for 2024, 539 for 2023, 451 for 2022, 455 for 2021 and 546 for 2020.
Papillion's 482 arrests in 2025 were down 5.1 percent from 508 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Papillion reported 268 arrests, against 357 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sarpy County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,680 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Papillion Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Papillion 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 2021 the jail held about 110 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 148 beds, and it ran at 116 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 Sarpy County Sheriff's Office at sarpy.gov/441/Department-of-Corrections (page title: Department of Corrections (JAIL) | Sarpy County, NE), phone 402-949-3876, 1206 Golden Gate Drive Papillion, NE 68046, 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 Papillion
Whether someone was arrested in Papillion, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Nebraska Trial Court Case Search, the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sarpy.gov/284/County-Attorney, phone 402-593-2201).
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 Papillion
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 Papillion police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at papillion.gov/387/Submit (page title: Open Records Request | Papillion, NE), phone 402-597-2035, 1000 East 1st Street Papillion, NE 68046, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 402-949-3876.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 402-593-2201, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Sarpy County guide covers every agency in the county: Sarpy County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Papillion each year?
Papillion reported 482 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Papillion?
Ask the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office at 402-949-3876; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sarpy.gov/441/Department-of-Corrections.
Where are people arrested in Papillion booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Papillion?
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 Papillion?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Papillion police for its own arrests, the Sarpy County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Papillion 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.