Woodford County Recent Arrests
The county's own path starts on the Woodford County Detention Center page. From there you reach Woodford JailTracker, a live application offering a Current Only search and a Released search. The jail sits at 204 Beasley Drive in Versailles. Call 859-873-3196 with a custody question. Versailles Police, the sheriff's office, Kentucky State Police, or another agency may make the arrest, but anyone booked into county custody generally shows up in this one facility system.
No fixed posting schedule exists. Woodford County publishes no separate daily booking feed. Current Only is the closest official same-day route. Released, set to 7 or 30 days, covers the multi-day view. The Daily Arrest Report walks through the narrow same-day check, while the Weekly Arrest Log handles recent releases, delayed news, and older copies. Results can lag behind booking, data entry, image review, or a display decision. A missing row does not rule out an arrest.
| Window | Best official source | Answers | Does not promise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Same day or current | JailTracker, Current Only | Whether a person is visible in current county custody and which booking fields appear. | A 24-hour archive, exact posting lag, or a photo for every row. |
| Recent release | JailTracker, Released, 7 or 30 Days | Whether the application still exposes a recent release entry. | A permanent archive, a complete list of every arrest, or final court results. |
| Weekly context | Woodford Sun News of Record | Police-report summaries, counts, court and local-news context. | Every name, booking photo, or a replacement for JailTracker. |
Arrested Last Night in Woodford County
A fresh arrest may not appear right away. The person is still being booked. The official application says nothing about how quickly a row appears, whether weekends run differently, or when a photo clears for display. Run Current Only and note the time. Then compare name, book date, facility, booking number, and charge detail before calling it a match. A similar name is not enough.
For one named person, VINELink Inmate Check offers a separate custody-status route. When a record or image stays hidden, ask the detention center about custody and the sheriff's records custodian about a written request.
Local timing fact. Woodford County sets no arrest-to-roster deadline. A current search is a snapshot at a stated time, not a complete list of the prior 24 hours.
The Woodford County Jail Roster
JailTracker opens with a verification check before searching. Pick Current Only for the in-custody slice, or Released for people recently out. Enter a first name, last name, or both. The expanded record holds the details. The grid may list name parts, book date, release date, booking number, jacket, and facility, while the individual view adds cases, charges, holds, bond, court dates, and an Offender Image area.
| Roster control or field | How to read it |
|---|---|
| Current Only | People the county application currently presents as in county-facility custody. |
| Released, 7 Days or 30 Days | A recent-release slice controlled by the application, not a historical archive. |
| Book date and release date | Custody-processing dates. The grid may not show the exact arrest time. |
| Charges and cases | Alleged offenses, case identifiers, court dates, bond data, and status fields that may change. |
| Holds | Another agency, hold dates, priority, contact, or hold type. A hold is not a conviction. |
| Offender Image | A facility-controlled image slot that may be blank or unavailable for a particular record. |
- Open the official county detention page and follow its inmate-list link.
- Select the custody state, enter identifying details, and complete the CAPTCHA.
- Compare the full record rather than relying on a name alone.
- Save the booking number and check date if a later court or records request is needed.
This roster is not a final case database. It may carry an arrest date, arresting agency, warrant number, counts, bond type, or case number. Those labels describe intake and case processing, nothing more. The county application is dynamic and facility-configurable, and a missing image proves nothing about whether a photo was taken.
Where Woodford County Arrests Are Published
Start with official sources. Secondary pages can help locate an older copied roster, but the jail, court, sheriff, or police custodian always wins. The county sheriff site lists no booking app and no public most-wanted roster. It publishes no separate daily feed. Watch out for a store result named for Woodford County. That app belongs to Woodford County, Illinois.
| Channel | Official? | Photo behavior | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodford JailTracker | County-linked | Possible individual image | Current and recent county custody. |
| Sheriff’s Office | Official | No roster located | Records requests, scam warning, agency direction. |
| Woodford Sun | Local news | Not a booking gallery | Weekly police and court context; reports may appear late. |
| RecentlyBooked | No | Copied listings may include photos | Secondary recent snapshot; its refresh claim is not a county rule. |
| Busted Newspaper | No | Copied archive | Secondary historical lead; verify every detail. |
| Arrests.org and Arre.st | No | Copied indexes | Unofficial county and city labels, not official statistics. |
Some third-party sites publish booking photos and deep archives. They can omit entries, keep stale copies, merge agencies, or attach the wrong person entirely. Confirm custody with the originating office before relying on any of them. The Arre.st Woodford County index appears here only as an example of that secondary landscape. It is not an official roster.
That Arre.st index is a search and archive context. It does not show whether any page or entry is current.
Recent Arrests by City
Versailles and Midway are the two incorporated cities on the county map. The Versailles Police Department serves all three. It covers Versailles, Midway, and greater Woodford County. Both city pages lead to the same county custody path. Local records and coverage stay distinct.
- Versailles Recent Arrests: VPD, the county JailTracker, the city records route, and Woodford Sun coverage.
- Midway Recent Arrests: shared Versailles Police service, the county JailTracker, and Midway’s written-records route.
A place name on an aggregator is just a filter. It does not create a city or a booking office. Check any city label against official law-enforcement and county sources.
What a Woodford County Arrest Record Shows
A booking record is a custody record. It is not a full criminal case. It ties together identity, intake, charges, court, bond, and any holds in one place. Fields shift with facility configuration. Anything described as possible deserves a look in the live entry.
| Record area | Possible details |
|---|---|
| Identity | First, middle, and last name, booking or jacket number, and facility. |
| Dates | Book date, release date, offense date, arrest date, and court date where supplied. |
| Charge | Code, crime type, counts, charge modifier, arresting agency, case and warrant number, and status. |
| Financial/court | Bond type, bond amount, fine amount, sentence field, court type, and court name. |
| Hold | Agency, hold date, expiration, crime level, priority, phone, and hold type. |
| Image | Offender Image and larger/original-size controls when the facility supplies an image. |
"Status" in a jail application is not the final disposition. A court can amend a charge, dismiss it, accept a plea, acquit, or leave the case pending. Follow that next stage in the court record.
Woodford County Mugshots and Booking Photos
A Woodford County booking record on JailTracker may display an Offender Image. A control opens the full-size version. Nothing promises a photo for every person. There is no fixed publication time, and nothing guarantees the image stays online after release. Treat a facility-controlled image as the whole promise. Woodford has no image gallery.
If a photo is missing, ask the custodian directly. Request that specific booking photograph in writing. State prison or state supervision runs through the DOC's separate Kentucky Offender Online Lookup. It may show a state offender image. It does not list every Woodford County arrest. A third-party photograph is just an unofficial copy, and it can be stale or mismatched.
A booking photo marks a custody event, nothing more. Match the full name and booking date before trusting it, then check the court record for what the case shows.
How to Obtain a Woodford County Arrest Record
The sheriff's office routes written record requests to its Official Custodian of Records. The request must be signed. It also needs your printed name, a specific description of the record, identifying details such as name, date, and location, and an address with a phone number. Keep a copy. Mail, email, fax, and hand delivery all reach the office. Send it to the contacts below.
- Name the person, approximate booking date, agency, facility, and booking number if known.
- Ask for the nonexempt booking record and, if needed, the booking photograph as an electronic copy.
- Ask for a fee estimate. Kentucky KRS 61.874 governs copies; the sheriff does not publish a special booking-photo fee or fixed turnaround.
- If the record is withheld or unavailable, ask for the statutory basis, separable portions, retention status, transfer information, or destruction date where available.
Who holds the record depends on who created it. Versailles Police records stay with the city clerk or the VPD. That applies when that department made the arrest. Jail booking material starts with the detention center or the county custodian. Midway shares police services with Versailles. Ask about that arrangement instead of hunting a separate Midway archive.
Court orders change records. Kentucky's Court of Justice forms and expungement process provide the official route when that happens. Independent sites may keep copies anyway. Ask for a no-fee correction path. Keep the court order handy. Never pay an unsolicited removal demand. The sheriff's open-records instructions show the county's official route.
The sheriff's open-records page lists the current request steps. Forms and procedures change, so trust the live county page over anything stored elsewhere.
Arrest Records and Kentucky Law
Kentucky's open-records law spans KRS 61.872 through 61.884. Each piece does a different job. KRS 61.872 governs written requests and inspection of nonexempt records, while KRS 61.874 sets copy and reproduction costs. KRS 61.878 lists the exemptions. Privacy, active-investigation, juvenile, medical, and mental-inquest material can all sit behind that wall in a booking request.
One statute targets photo shakedowns directly. KRS 61.8746 covers the commercial use of qualifying booking or inmate photographs when someone demands payment for removal, and it builds in a court remedy with specified damages. Document the page first. Then use official legal or correction channels rather than any paid-removal service.
The state's county-jailer schedule sorts jail records into a Jail Register, a cumulative Inmate Record File, medical material, daily logs, and video or audio. Retention varies by series. Several jail series may be destroyed five years after release, while non-evidentiary recordings can go after 30 days. That is statewide guidance, not a Woodford guarantee. For an older booking, ask which series survives, whether it transferred, and whether destruction was lawful.
These law and access pages are official sources:
The mugshot-publication statute capture provides the text that governs the anti-pay-to-remove discussion.
Statutes change, so read the current text rather than a summary. KRS 61.878 public-record exemptions form the other big access wall.
One public booking row never unlocks every jail file. Exemptions attach record by record.
Warrants and the Woodford County Most Wanted List
Woodford County publishes no online warrant-search portal and no official most-wanted list. The sheriff's site posts a scam warning instead. It flags fake warrant calls and tax letters. Call the sheriff's office at 859-873-3119 with records questions, or the Circuit Court Clerk at 859-873-3711. A warrant number in a booking record is not proof a warrant is executable today.
Ask the clerk what case or warrant material can be released and whether any of it is sealed. Ask law enforcement about current status. Never pay a caller, texter, or letter writer who threatens arrest unless money moves. Never confront someone over a web listing. Report immediate danger through the emergency channel.
After a Woodford County Arrest
Booking is only the front door. The court record after it carries the case number, hearing history, amended charges, plea, judgment, sentence, or dismissal. The Woodford County Court of Justice sits in the courthouse annex at 130 Court Street in Versailles. The Circuit Court Clerk's number is 859-873-3711. District court runs a Monday jail docket at 1:00 p.m. It adds Monday criminal sessions. Circuit handles criminal cases the first and second Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Those are landmarks, not promises for any one case.
- Save the booking number, case number, and charge wording from the jail record.
- Use the official court-event route as a locator, then ask the clerk for the authoritative record or certified copy.
- Compare the later disposition with the original booking charge.
Charges shown at booking are a first draft. A case may be amended, dismissed, resolved by plea, acquitted, or still pending. The court record tells that part.
The official Woodford County Court of Justice page covers post-booking docket details.
The court page shows the jail-to-clerk handoff plainly.
State Prison and Federal Custody
State custody works differently from a Woodford County booking. For anyone serving time or under state supervision, Kentucky's KOOL database is the place to look. It lets you search by name, alias, identifier, county, offense, facility, supervision status, and photo flags. The Department of Corrections refreshes it daily. Fresh entries may still change. Treat brand-new results loosely. Someone held in the Woodford County jail after an arrest will not show in KOOL at all. That system only tracks state custody.
Federal cases call for different tools. The Bureau of Prisons locator finds federal inmates only. It has no booking-photo gallery for county arrests. Immigration detention runs through the ICE detainee locator. It demands exact identity details and warns of reporting delays. The Marshals Service offers no national public locator like JailTracker. A hold noted in county records does not confirm federal or immigration status. Go through the agency that actually holds the person.
Want an alert if custody changes after an arrest? Kentucky VINELink handles that. It tracks status only, separate from court outcomes, booking photos, and the federal systems above.