Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Shreveport, Louisiana, in Caddo Parish, has about 177,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Louisiana the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Shreveport is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Shreveport public records, Caddo Parish criminal records, Shreveport arrest records, Shreveport warrants, Shreveport inmate search, Shreveport court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Caddo Parish
A criminal case from Shreveport is filed in the District Court for Caddo Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small civil claims; mayor's courts handle town ordinance tickets, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Caddo Parish, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the parish at caddoclerk.com (page title: Caddo Parish Clerk of Court), 501 Texas Street, Room 103 Shreveport, LA 71101, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Louisiana has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Louisiana Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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 file in the District Court for Caddo Parish is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at ibc.dps.louisiana.gov.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Shreveport
The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Shreveport (filed by the FBI as Shreveport Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Shreveport: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
Together, the four agencies in Caddo Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,713 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Shreveport arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Shreveport in 2025
The agency that reports for Shreveport had 2,024 violent and 6,285 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Caddo Parish
Charges in Caddo Parish are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the parish and brings the cases in the District Court for Caddo Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at caddo.gov/portfolio-item/caddo-parish-district-attorney (page title: Caddo Parish District Attorney | Parish of Caddo), phone (318) 226-6960, 525 Marshall Street Shreveport, LA 71101, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Shreveport
Registered sex offenders living in Shreveport are listed on the Louisiana Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry, run by the Louisiana State Police at lsp.org. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Caddo Parish for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Louisiana Public Records Law a parish office must answer a request within 3 business days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies. The parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at caddo.gov/public-information/public-records-requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Parish of Caddo).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Shreveport?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Caddo 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.
Can I search Shreveport criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at caddoclerk.com (page title: Caddo Parish Clerk of Court).
How do I get my own Louisiana criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Shreveport?
The District Attorney, reached at (318) 226-6960, which files its cases in the District Court for Caddo Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Shreveport 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.