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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Covington, Louisiana, in St. Tammany Parish, has about 12,000 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 St. Tammany 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: Covington public records, St. Tammany Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Covington
The FBI lists Covington with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Covington Police Department. It reported 333 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 St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,943 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Covington Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Covington: 333 for 2025, 424 for 2024, 513 for 2023 and 343 for 2022.
Covington's 333 arrests in 2025 were down 21 percent from 424 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Covington reported 227 arrests, against 204 in the same months of 2025.
Across St. Tammany Parish, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,366 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Covington Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Covington is held at the parish jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 910 people, down from about 1,090 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,180 beds, and it ran at 77 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 St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office at inmates.stpso.revize.com/bookings (page title: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Office Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 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 Covington
An arrest in Covington can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the parish jail; the case index of the District Court for St. Tammany Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sttammanyclerk.org, phone (985) 809-8700); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at stpgov.org/departments/civil_division_of_district_attorneys_office/..., phone 985-898-3427).
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 Covington
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Covington police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at covla.com/city-departments/police-department/police-reports/report-... (page title: Report Request | City of Covington Louisiana), phone 985 892-8500, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 985-898-3427, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for St. Tammany Parish, through the court records page at sttammanyclerk.org, phone (985) 809-8700.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at stpcoroner.org/public-rec-request (page title: Public Records Request | St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The St. Tammany Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: St. Tammany Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Covington each year?
Covington reported 333 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Covington booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Covington?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for St. Tammany 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 Covington?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Covington police for its own arrests, the St. Tammany 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; the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at stpcoroner.org/public-rec-request.
Is this the official Covington 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.