Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Bastrop, Louisiana, in Morehouse Parish, has about 8,900 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the parish jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Morehouse Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Bastrop public records, Morehouse Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bastrop
The FBI lists Bastrop with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bastrop Police Department. It reported 300 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 313 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Bastrop Reports
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.
- Bastrop: 300 for 2025, 268 for 2024, 146 for 2023, 159 for 2022, 265 for 2021 and 682 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Bastrop's 300 arrests in 2025 were up 12 percent from 268 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Bastrop reported 92 arrests, against 141 in the same months of 2025.
Across Morehouse Parish, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 613 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bastrop Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Bastrop 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 2021 the jail held about 440 people, down from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 264 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at mpso.net/corrections-division (page title: Corrections Division), phone 318-281-9336, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists its inmates at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bastrop
For Bastrop the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 4thda.org, phone (318) 388-4720).
Louisiana does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Louisiana State Police 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 Bastrop
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the agency must answer within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
- An arrest by the Bastrop police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofbastrop.com/police-department (page title: Police Department | Bastrop, Louisiana), phone (318) 281-1322, 202 East Jefferson Avenue, 1st Floor, Room 134 Bastrop, LA 71220, Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 318-281-9336.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (318) 388-4720, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Morehouse Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Morehouse Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bastrop each year?
Bastrop reported 300 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bastrop?
Ask the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office at 318-281-9336; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mpso.net/corrections-division.
Where are people arrested in Bastrop booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bastrop?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Morehouse Parish are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police 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 Louisiana Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bastrop?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bastrop police for its own arrests, the Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Louisiana Public Records Law the answer is due within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Bastrop website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.