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 30, 2026.
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, has about 131,000 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 Bossier Parish 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: Bossier Parish public records, Bossier Parish arrest records, Bossier Parish warrants, Bossier Parish inmate search, Bossier Parish court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Bossier Parish
In Louisiana the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Bossier Parish are heard by the District Court for Bossier Parish, which hears felonies, civil cases, divorces, probate and juvenile matters; the City Courts and Parish Courts take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small civil claims; mayor's courts handle town ordinance tickets, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of Court.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at bossierclerk.com (page title: Bossier Parish Clerk of Court | 26th Judicial District Court of Louisiana), Monday - Friday, except legal holidays, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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
The statewide criminal history kept by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is closed to the public in Louisiana: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
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 Bossier Parish
The Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Bossier City, Haughton, Benton and Plain Dealing keep the arrest records in Bossier Parish: 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bossier Parish: Louisiana State University at Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana State University at Shreveport and Southern University and A&M College at Shreveport (campus police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Shreveport Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Bossier Parish, so its arrests are not broken out for Bossier Parish here.
Together, the three agencies in Bossier Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,310 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 Bossier Parish arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Bossier Parish in 2025
The four agencies in Bossier Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 592 violent and 2,494 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,086 crimes in 2025 against 3,495 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Bossier Parish public records guide.
The District Attorney for Bossier Parish
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Bossier Parish become charges and files them in the District Court for Bossier Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at bossierparishla.gov/parish-government-offices/district-attorney (page title: District Attorney), phone 318-965-3714, 204 Burt Blvd. 5th Floor Benton LA 71006, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Bossier Parish
Registered sex offenders living in Bossier Parish 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 Bossier 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Bossier Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Bossier 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 Bossier Parish criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at bossierclerk.com (page title: Bossier Parish Clerk of Court | 26th Judicial District Court of Louisiana).
How do I get my own Louisiana criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Bossier Parish?
The District Attorney, reached at 318-965-3714, which files its cases in the District Court for Bossier Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Bossier 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.