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.
Harahan, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish, has about 8,800 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 Jefferson 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: Harahan public records, Jefferson Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Harahan
The FBI lists Harahan with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Harahan Police Department. It reported 113 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 Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 4,503 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Harahan 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.
- Harahan: 113 for 2025, 163 for 2024, 258 for 2023, 173 for 2022, 177 for 2021 and 587 for 2020.
Harahan's 113 arrests in 2025 were down 31 percent from 163 in 2024.
Across Jefferson Parish, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,353 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Harahan Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Harahan 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 1,090 people, up from about 920 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2020, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,085 beds, and it ran at 92 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 Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office at jdpso.org/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=desc/1 (page title: Inmate Roster | Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff's Office | Sort Booking Time | Descending | Page 1), phone 337.821.2100, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 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 Harahan
Whether someone was arrested in Harahan, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the parish jail; the case index of the District Court for Jefferson Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at jeffparishclerk.gov, phone (504) 364-2900); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at jeffparish.gov/m/directory/department?did=59, phone 504-736-6300).
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 Harahan
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 Harahan police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at harahanla.gov/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Harahan), phone (504) 737-9763, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 337.821.2100.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 504-736-6300, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Jefferson Parish, through the court records page at jeffparishclerk.gov, phone (504) 364-2900.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at jeffparish.gov/420/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Jefferson Parish, LA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Jefferson Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Jefferson Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Harahan each year?
Harahan reported 113 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Harahan?
Look on the custody page of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office at jdpso.org, or call 337.821.2100. It covers people booked into the parish jail.
Where are people arrested in Harahan booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Harahan?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Jefferson 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 Harahan?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Harahan police for its own arrests, the Jefferson 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 jeffparish.gov/420/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Harahan 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.