Kansas
What Kansas's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Kansas handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Jail staff sworn as deputy court clerks on the district's bond schedule; district judge or district magistrate judge
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- No hour limit set
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- Some counties
- Prosecutor
- County attorney, organized differently by place, elected
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
Jail staff sworn in as deputy clerks of the district court often release people on the district's bond schedule before they see a judge. Otherwise a district judge or district magistrate judge sets the bond at the first appearance. District magistrate judges may be non-lawyers.
K.S.A. 22-2901K.S.A. 22-2802- Time to see a judge
A person arrested without a warrant must be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest available magistrate, and a complaint filed at once. Kansas law sets no general number of hours.
K.S.A. 22-2901(1)- Money bail
Kansas courts may set money appearance bonds, and the bond must list every condition of release.
K.S.A. 22-2802
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 94%
- of Kansas's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 99%
- 411 of 413 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
2 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission: Gilley's Park CityOther State Agency
- Kansas State Gaming Agency, Enforcement DivisionOther State Agency
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), Incident Based Reporting Unit
- Incident reporting
- KIBRS (Kansas Incident Based Reporting System)
- Annual report
- Kansas Crime IndexLatest edition: 2025. Editions online 2003 to 2025.
- Online portal
- No state portal found.
- What changed
- Adult and Juvenile Arrests PDFs stop after 2021; 2022 and later year pages list only the Crime Index. 2022 was re-issued as amended in November 2023. A one-off Crime in Kansas 2013 report sits on the 2013 page.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Kansas sources
Kansas Bureau of Investigation · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
KBI Incident Based Reporting Unit publishes the annual Kansas Crime Index as a PDF.
Kansas Office of Judicial Administration · Courts · pdf · annual
One PDF per county (105): felony and misdemeanor filed, terminated, pending, current and prior FY. Pages 403 to scripts; PDFs open with a browser user agent.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.