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.
Thibodaux, Louisiana, in Lafourche Parish, has about 16,000 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 Lafourche 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: Thibodaux public records, Lafourche Parish arrest records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Thibodaux
The FBI lists Thibodaux with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Thibodaux Police Department. It reported 722 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 Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,427 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Lafourche Parish: Nicholls State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Thibodaux 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.
- Thibodaux: 722 for 2025, 721 for 2024, 670 for 2023, 825 for 2022, 874 for 2021 and 785 for 2020.
Thibodaux's 722 arrests in 2025 were up 0.1 percent from 721 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Thibodaux reported 461 arrests, against 481 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lafourche Parish, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,149 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Thibodaux Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Thibodaux 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 530 people, up from about 350 in 2019. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office at lafourche.lavns.org (page title: Lafourche Parish Detention Center), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Thibodaux
For Thibodaux the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lpda.org/our-office, phone (985) 447-2003).
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 Thibodaux
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 Thibodaux police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at ci.thibodaux.la.us/Departments/TPD/Index (page title: Thibodaux Police Department | The City of Thibodaux, Louisiana), phone (985) 446-5021, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (985) 447-2003, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Lafourche Parish guide covers every agency in the parish: Lafourche Parish arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Thibodaux each year?
Thibodaux reported 722 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Thibodaux?
Ask the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lafourche.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in Thibodaux booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Thibodaux?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Lafourche 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 Thibodaux?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Thibodaux police for its own arrests, the Lafourche 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 Thibodaux 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.