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 on September 24, 2026.
Colfax County, Nebraska, has about 11,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Colfax County Sheriff's Office, one city agency 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 Colfax County District 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: Colfax County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Colfax County
The Colfax County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Colfax County. It reported 68 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Colfax County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Schuyler, 6,708 residents: 204 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Colfax County: the State Patrol in Colfax County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Colfax County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Schuyler: 204 for 2025, 214 for 2024, 166 for 2023, 175 for 2022, 106 for 2021 and 90 for 2020.
- Colfax County Sheriff's Office: 68 for 2025, 79 for 2023, 158 for 2022, 181 for 2021, 126 for 2020 and 142 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 272 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 204 in 2025 against 214 in 2024, down 4.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 146 arrests, against 185 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Colfax County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Colfax County 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 32 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 34 beds, and it ran at 93 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 Colfax County Sheriff's Office at colfaxcountyne.gov/corrections (page title: Colfax County Jail | Colfax County), phone (402) 352-8526, 411 E 11th Street Schuyler, NE 68661, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Colfax County
Whether someone was arrested in Colfax County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Colfax County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at colfaxcountyne.gov/clerk-of-district-court, phone (402) 352-8506); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at colfaxcountyne.gov/attorney-county, phone (402) 352-8502).
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 Colfax 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 Colfax County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (402) 352-8526.
- An arrest in Schuyler: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in Colfax County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (402) 352-8502, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Colfax County District Court, through the court records page at colfaxcountyne.gov/clerk-of-district-court, phone (402) 352-8506.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at colfaxcountyne.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Request | Colfax County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Colfax County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Colfax County: Schuyler. Clarkson, Howells, Leigh, Rogers and Richland 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 Colfax County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Colfax County each year?
Schuyler reported 204 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 272 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Colfax County?
Ask the Colfax County Sheriff's Office at (402) 352-8526; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at colfaxcountyne.gov/corrections.
Where are people arrested in Colfax County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Colfax County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Colfax 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 Colfax County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Colfax 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at colfaxcountyne.gov.
Is this the official Colfax 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.