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.
Kimball County, Nebraska, has about 3,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kimball 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 Kimball 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: Kimball County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kimball County
The Kimball County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kimball County. It reported 2 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Kimball County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Kimball, 2,204 residents: 26 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 Kimball County: the State Patrol in Kimball County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kimball 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.
- Kimball: 26 for 2025 and 118 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Kimball County Sheriff's Office: 2 for 2025 and 26 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 28 arrests that year.
Through May 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 15 arrests, against 12 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kimball County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kimball 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 2019 the jail held about 7 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 9 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Kimball County Sheriff's Office at kimballcountyne.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff), phone (308) 235-3615, 114 East 3rd St, Kimball, NE 69145, Monday's and Thursday's from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., 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 Kimball County
For Kimball County the place to look is the case index of the Kimball 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/kimball-county-court (page title: Kimball County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 308-235-2831, belongs to a lower court, not to the Kimball 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 Kimball 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 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 Kimball County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (308) 235-3615.
- An arrest in Kimball: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in Kimball County: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Kimball 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 308-235-2831, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Kimball County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Kimball County: Kimball. Dix and Bushnell 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 Kimball County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kimball County each year?
Kimball reported 26 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 28 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kimball County?
Ask the Kimball County Sheriff's Office at (308) 235-3615; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kimballcountyne.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Kimball County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kimball County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kimball 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 Kimball County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kimball 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 Kimball 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.