Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Blaine County, Nebraska, has 454 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office and one state 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Blaine County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it.
This guide covers who makes arrests, arrest counts, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Blaine County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Blaine County
The Blaine County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Blaine County.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Blaine County: the State Patrol in Blaine County (state police).
Arrest Counts on File for Blaine County
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For Blaine County the counts on file are partial: Blaine County Sheriff's Office has sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Blaine County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Blaine 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.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, whose inmate locator is at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Blaine County
For Blaine County the place to look is the case index of the Blaine County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/blaine-county-court (page title: Blaine County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 308-547-2222, belongs to a lower court, not to the Blaine 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 Blaine 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 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 Blaine County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in Blaine County: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Blaine 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, phone 308-547-2222, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Blaine County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Blaine County with an arrest reporting agency of its own.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Blaine County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are people arrested in Blaine County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Blaine County?
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 Blaine County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Blaine County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Blaine 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.