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 2024. 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 September 26, 2026.
Gonzales, Louisiana, in Ascension Parish, has about 14,000 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 Ascension 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: Gonzales public records, Ascension Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Gonzales
The FBI lists Gonzales with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Gonzales Police Department. It reported 687 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,948 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Gonzales 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.
- Gonzales: 687 for 2024, 772 for 2023, 874 for 2022, 936 for 2021, 992 for 2020 and 829 for 2019.
Gonzales's 687 arrests in 2024 were down 11 percent from 772 in 2023.
Across Ascension Parish, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 2,734 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gonzales Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Gonzales 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 2023 the jail held about 490 people, down from about 510 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 588 beds, and it ran at 83 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 Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office at inmate-inquiry.ascensionsheriff.com/NewWorld.InmateInquiry/Ascensio... (page title: Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Gonzales
Whether someone was arrested in Gonzales, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the parish jail; the case index of the District Court for Ascension Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ascensionparishcourt.org, phone (225) 621-8400).
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 Gonzales
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 Gonzales police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at sabinesheriff.com/louisiana/police-department/gonzales-police-depar... (page title: Gonzales Police Department, Louisiana Basic Information: How to Contact and Police Records.), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
- An arrest by the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Ascension Parish, through the court records page at ascensionparishcourt.org, phone (225) 621-8400.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Ascension Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Ascension Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gonzales each year?
Gonzales reported 687 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gonzales?
Look on the custody page of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office at inmate-inquiry.ascensionsheriff.com. It covers people booked into the parish jail.
Where are people arrested in Gonzales booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gonzales?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Ascension 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 Gonzales?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gonzales police for its own arrests, the Ascension 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 Gonzales 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.