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 1, 2026.
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, has about 9,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Caldwell 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 Caldwell 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: Caldwell Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Caldwell Parish
The Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Caldwell Parish. It reported 208 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
How Many Arrests The Caldwell 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.
- Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office: 208 for 2024, 235 for 2023, 281 for 2022, 335 for 2021 and 1,182 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
The Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office's 208 arrests in 2024 were down 11 percent from 235 in 2023.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Caldwell Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in Caldwell Parish 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 570 people, down from about 610 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 600 beds, and it ran at 102 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 Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office at caldwell.lavns.org (page title: Caldwell Parish Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 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 Caldwell Parish
Whether someone was arrested in Caldwell Parish, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Caldwell Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caldwellclerk.org); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at fifthda.org, phone 318.728.6451).
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 Caldwell Parish
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 Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 318.728.6451, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Caldwell Parish, through the court records page at caldwellclerk.org.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Caldwell Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Caldwell 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 Caldwell Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Caldwell Parish each year?
The Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office reported 208 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Caldwell Parish?
Ask the Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at caldwell.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in Caldwell Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Caldwell Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Caldwell 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 Caldwell Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Caldwell 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.
Is this the official Caldwell 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.