Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Assumption Parish, Louisiana, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office. An arrest 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 Assumption Parish. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Assumption Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Assumption Parish
The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Assumption Parish. It reported 1,145 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office: 1,145 for 2020.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Assumption Parish Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Assumption Parish 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 2021 the jail held about 110 people, down from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 125 beds, and it ran at 90 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office at assumptionsheriff.com/services/corrections-services (page title: Corrections Services | Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Assumption Parish
An arrest in Assumption Parish can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the District Court for Assumption Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at assumptionclerk.com/record-search); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 23rdda.org).
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 Assumption Parish
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 Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Assumption Parish, through the court records page at assumptionclerk.com/record-search.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at assumptionla.com/165/Public-Records-Requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Assumption Parish Police Jury, LA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Assumption Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Assumption Parish with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the parish agencies'.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for Assumption Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Assumption Parish each year?
The Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office reported 1,145 arrests to the FBI for 2020, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Assumption Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Assumption Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Assumption 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 Assumption Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 assumptionla.com/165/Public-Records-Requests.
Is this the official Assumption Parish website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official parish, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.