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 between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Sheridan County, Nebraska, has about 4,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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: Sheridan County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sheridan County
The Sheridan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sheridan County. It reported 43 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Sheridan County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Gordon, 1,442 residents: 102 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 Sheridan County: the State Patrol in Sheridan County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sheridan 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.
- Gordon: 102 for 2025, 107 for 2024, 111 for 2023, 105 for 2022, 126 for 2021 and 111 for 2020.
- Sheridan County Sheriff's Office: 43 for 2025, 47 for 2023 and 81 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 145 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 102 in 2025 against 107 in 2024, down 4.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 118 arrests, against 106 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sheridan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sheridan 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 23 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 24 beds, and it ran at 96 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 Sheridan County Sheriff's Office at sheridancounty.ne.gov/webpages/sheriff/sheriff.html (page title: Sheridan County Sheriff), phone 308 327-2161, 2161 Address Sheriff's Office 303 East 2nd Street Rushville, NE 69360, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Sheridan County
Whether someone was arrested in Sheridan County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Sheridan 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 sheridancounty.ne.gov/webpages/attorney/attorney.html, phone 308-282-0690).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at sheridancounty.ne.gov/webpages/county_court/county_court.html (page title: Sheridan County Court), phone 308 327-5656, belongs to a lower court, not to the Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 308 327-2161.
- An arrest in Gordon: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in Sheridan County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 308-282-0690, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Sheridan County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at sheridancounty.ne.gov, phone 308 327-5656, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sheridan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Sheridan County: Gordon. Rushville, Hay Springs and Clinton 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 Sheridan County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sheridan County each year?
Gordon reported 102 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 145 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sheridan County?
Ask the Sheridan County Sheriff's Office at 308 327-2161; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheridancounty.ne.gov.
Where are people arrested in Sheridan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sheridan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sheridan 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 Sheridan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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.