Search Butler Criminal History

How to Check Criminal History in Butler

Begin with Butler Police when the event occurred inside the city and that department responded. The published police number and email provide the direct channel because Butler has no police report portal, online arrest log, app, or separate department request form. Use the city form when a written public-records request is appropriate, and keep a copy of the exact description submitted.

A Butler report, booking entry, and court file should be read as separate stages. The report records the alleged event. The receiving jail records custody. District or Circuit Court records what was filed and how it ended. If those sources differ, use the later signed court order for the legal outcome and ask the record creator to correct its own data.

1. Contact Butler Police at 859-472-6063 or cobpd300@gmail.com and ask for current report-request instructions.
2. Describe the Butler event by date, location, incident number, and exact report or media needed.
3. Call the Pendleton jailer at 859-654-4444 to locate a person recently transported from Butler.
4. Call the Pendleton Circuit Court Clerk at 859-654-3347 for any filed District or Circuit case.
5. Order an AOC statewide court report only when Kentucky-wide case leads are needed, then verify any Butler matter with the local clerk.

Butler Criminal Records Start on Front Street

Butler City Hall is at 102 Front Street, P.O. Box 229, Butler, Kentucky 41006. Its main number is 859-472-5015, and published counter hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to noon. The city advertises an overnight box on the Matilda Street side for bills. Research did not confirm that box as a records-request drop, so do not place a request there without asking City Hall.

Butler Police contact is Chief Kenneth Hale at 859-472-6063 and cobpd300@gmail.com. The city says it has its own police department but does not publish a separate police page, street address, records window, report portal, booking log, or app. That makes a phone or email inquiry the sound first step for a police document.

The assigned official Butler source appears below.

The city source confirms Butler government contact, while record-specific instructions should be checked with the custodian before submission.

The Butler Police Department

Butler Police is the logical custodian for a department-created incident or arrest report. Ask whether the city custodian or the department will receive the request, then identify the exact record. Useful details include the incident date, street or location, report number, involved agency, and whether the request seeks a written report, photograph, body-camera video, or another item.

Do not assume one response covers dispatch, jail, and court records. Kentucky State Police dispatches Pendleton County calls, so 911 audio and CAD requests take the KSP open-records route. The receiving jail holds intake and custody records. The Pendleton clerk holds filed complaints, citations, dockets, orders, dispositions, and sentences. Butler Police does not become custodian of those separate files merely because its officer made the arrest.

The manifest also assigns an official police-source capture to both city pages.

Because the live research found no separate published department page, confirm every current police record route directly instead of inferring a web portal.

Butler Criminal Record Form Fields

Butler publishes an open-records landing page, policy PDF, and standard request form. The form asks for the requester's name, mailing address, email when applicable, an itemized description, a commercial-purpose choice, a qualifying Kentucky residency category, signature, and date. It does not offer police-report checkboxes or promise that a broad request will locate every kind of criminal record.

Write the description narrowly. Name the Butler Police event, date range, location, incident number if known, and exact report or media. The current police-specific copy fee, identification rule, and turnaround beyond the city's policy were not located. Ask the custodian for those current terms rather than assuming inspection or copies are free.

The shared manifest includes a neighboring official request-interface capture shown below for comparison.

Butler requesters must still use Butler's own PDF form and policy, not the Falmouth form pictured in the shared source set.

Arrests and Bookings in Butler

Butler has no municipal jail, and Pendleton County operates no detention facility. An adult arrested by Butler Police is transported under the county's Bourbon County detention arrangement. Butler Police keeps the agency arrest report. Bourbon County Detention Center supplies current custody and bond information. The Pendleton jailer at 859-654-4444 helps identify where a person is held.

The filed case is another step. District Court handles misdemeanors, violations, traffic, ordinance prosecutions, and preliminary felony matters. Circuit Court handles felony prosecutions after indictment. A booking may become visible before a court record, and the filed charge may be amended or dismissed. Always check the clerk's signed orders for the final outcome.

A Butler Arrest Leaves the County

The record trail follows the person out of Butler even though the alleged event remains a Butler police matter. After arrest, the person is transported to the contracted detention facility. Intake can create a booking number, photograph, fingerprints, delivered charges, holds, bond data, housing status, and release transactions. Those fields belong with the receiving jail, not a nonexistent Butler booking portal.

For a current location, call the jailer first rather than relying on old fiscal claims or a private search page. Kentucky VINE can provide participating custody-event alerts. KOOL is a later DOC custody or supervision source, not a Butler arrest roster. It will not show every person arrested in the city or every pretrial detainee.

Note: A missing KOOL result does not show that a Butler arrest or pending Pendleton District Court case does not exist.

Butler Municipal Court Records

There is no Butler municipal court and no Butler criminal-case portal. KRS 24A.110 places city-ordinance criminal cases in Kentucky District Court, while KRS 83A.065 routes prosecution through the county attorney. Filed Butler matters are therefore checked with the Pendleton Circuit Court Clerk at the Judicial Center in Falmouth.

The route is physical or by phone, not an anonymous Butler docket search. Provide the clerk with a name, approximate filing year, case type, and case number if known. Then request the docket and the particular complaint, citation, order, judgment, or sentence needed to understand the filed matter.

Butler Criminal Cases on Mill Street

The Pendleton County Attorney's office is at 204 Mill Street, P.O. Box 243, Butler, Kentucky 41006. Stacey Sanning handles local misdemeanor prosecution and county legal duties. The published phone is 859-654-2600 and fax is 859-654-2132. This is a useful example of the county's split geography: not every justice office is in the county seat.

The prosecutor is not a public court-record portal. A requester seeking the filed complaint, docket, judgment, or sentence should still use the Pendleton clerk. The county attorney's location helps explain how Butler ordinance and misdemeanor matters can be prosecuted through the unified county court system without Butler maintaining a separate court.

Where Butler Records End Up

A Butler Police report remains an agency record. When a charge is filed, District or Circuit Court creates and maintains the judicial file. Arrest fingerprints and reported outcomes can move through criminal-justice reporting into the Kentucky State Police central repository. A statewide AOC report draws from CourtNet and is labeled "Not an Official Court Record," so it should be used to locate cases rather than replace their signed documents.

Record flow: Butler PD › Pendleton County Courts › Kentucky State Police Criminal Identifications and Records Branch.

Timing creates gaps. Police may have a recent event before the clerk receives a charge. A clerk file may contain an amended count or later order not clear in a summary. KSP fingerprint-supported history and AOC court reports also serve different purposes. The most reliable Butler search checks the record creator and verifies the outcome at the court.

Butler 911 Records Follow KSP

KSP dispatches Pendleton County, so a Butler call can create records in two agencies. Butler Police may hold the incident response report, while KSP can hold the dispatch audio and CAD entries. A city request that merely says "all records" may not reach KSP. Name the type of record and send it to its actual custodian.

For dispatch material, use the KSP open-records process. For Butler police material, contact the department or city custodian. Active investigations, juvenile facts, medical data, protected victim information, and private identifiers may be withheld or redacted. If only part is exempt, ask for any reasonably segregable public portion.

Butler Criminal Records by the Numbers

Butler had 646 residents in the 2020 Census, ranking second among Pendleton County's two incorporated cities. FBI Crime Data Explorer identifies Butler Police as ORI KY0960200 and a NIBRS participant since May 2015. The agency's 2024 summarized monthly endpoints showed zero reported violent offenses and zero reported property offenses across all twelve months in those two categories.

That narrow statement does not mean "no crime." Other agencies may handle events, reporting can change, and the two summarized categories do not cover every offense or every record. Agency data should never be used to decide whether a named incident or case exists. Search Butler Police, the clerk, and other official custodians for the actual matter.

Butler Records Along the Licking River

Butler grew around the Kentucky Central Railroad about 1852 and incorporated on February 1, 1868. The city name honors William O. Butler. Its history recalls a covered bridge once claimed as the world's longest and the destructive 1997 flood. Butler lies along the Licking River about ten miles north of Falmouth.

This history gives Butler a distinct civic setting, but it does not prove that a particular police or court file was lost. Old judicial records remain the clerk's responsibility. Ask whether a file is held locally, stored off-site, or destroyed under an authorized retention schedule. If an off-site public file exists, request its facility and locator number.

Public Access Rules for Butler Records

The Kentucky Open Records Act applies to city public-agency records, subject to its exemptions and other confidentiality laws. Judicial files follow court access rules and must be requested from the clerk that heard the case. Centralized KSP criminal-history records follow KRS Chapter 17 rather than functioning as an anonymous public people-search portal.

Public status never means every field must be released. Juvenile, active-investigation, medical, victim, sealed, expunged, and private data can be restricted. An arrest is not proof of guilt. Confirm a Butler case outcome in the signed District or Circuit Court order, and use the broader Pendleton criminal court record route when the file itself is needed.