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.
York County, Nebraska, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the York County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies 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 York 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: York County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in York County
The York County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for York County. It reported 162 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in York County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- York, 8,179 residents: 90 arrests reported for 2025.
- Henderson, 1,089 residents.
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 York County: the State Patrol in York County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in York 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.
- York County Sheriff's Office: 162 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 121 for 2023 and 61 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- York: 90 for 2025, 103 for 2024, 119 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 62 for 2021 and 430 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 252 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 252 in 2025 against 198 in 2024, up 27 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 137 arrests, against 118 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in York County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in York 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 31 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 32 beds, and it ran at 97 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 York County Sheriff's Office at inmatesinjail.yorkcountygov.com/detentioncenter/inmatesinjail.aspx (page title: York County Detention Center Inmates), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 York County
Whether someone was arrested in York County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the York 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 yorkcounty.ne.gov/county-attorney.html, phone (402) 362-5583).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/york-county-court (page title: York County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 402-362-4925, belongs to a lower court, not to the York 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 York 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 York County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in York or Henderson: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in York County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (402) 362-5583, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the York 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/courts/york-county-court, phone 402-362-4925, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in York County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the nine cities in York County: York and Henderson. McCool Junction, Waco, Bradshaw, Gresham, Benedict, Thayer and Lushton 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 York County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in York County each year?
The York County Sheriff's Office reported 162 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 252 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in York County?
Ask the York County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at inmatesinjail.yorkcountygov.com.
Where are people arrested in York County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the York County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in York 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 York County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the York 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 York 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.