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 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Kane County, Utah, has about 8,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kane County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. 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 District Court for Kane County. 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: Kane County public records, Utah arrest records, Utah inmate search and Utah criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kane County
The Kane County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kane County. It reported 175 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Kane County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Kanab, 5,291 residents: 98 arrests reported for 2025.
- Big Water, 535 residents: 12 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kane 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.
- Kane County Sheriff's Office: 175 for 2025, 216 for 2024, 286 for 2023, 295 for 2022, 254 for 2021 and 212 for 2020.
- Kanab: 98 for 2025, 98 for 2024, 90 for 2023, 87 for 2022 and 97 for 2021.
- Big Water: 12 for 2025, 12 for 2023 and 7 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 285 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 273 in 2025 against 314 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 176 arrests, against 164 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kane County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kane 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 180 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 210 beds, and it ran at 87 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Kane County Sheriff's Office at kane.utah.gov/301/Inmate-Information (page title: Inmate Information | Kane County, UT), phone 800-943-2189, 971 E Kaneplex Drive Kanab, UT 84741, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Utah Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at corrections.utah.gov/inmate-services/offender-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Kane County
An arrest in Kane County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Kane County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; MyCase and Xchange, free case lookup for parties through MyCase; the public Xchange search is by subscription, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kane.utah.gov/162/Attorney, phone 435-644-5278).
Utah does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Kane 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 Government Records Access and Management Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited, and it may charge copying and staff time after the first quarter hour.
- An arrest by the Kane County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 800-943-2189.
- An arrest in Kanab or Big Water: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 435-644-5278, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kane.utah.gov/299/Records-Requests (page title: Records Requests | Kane County, UT).
- Your own statewide record: a Right of Access request, fingerprint-based, to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Kane County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the five cities in Kane County: Kanab and Big Water. Orderville, Glendale and Alton 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 District Court for Kane County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kane County each year?
The Kane County Sheriff's Office reported 175 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 285 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kane County?
Look on the custody page of the Kane County Sheriff's Office at kane.utah.gov/301/Inmate-Information, or call 800-943-2189. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Kane County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kane County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kane County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Kane County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Government Records Access and Management Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Kane County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kane County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Government Records Access and Management Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 5 when the request is expedited; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kane.utah.gov/299/Records-Requests.
Is this the official Kane 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.