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 October 2, 2026.
Grant Parish, Louisiana, has about 22,000 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 Grant 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Grant Parish public records, Grant Parish arrest records, Grant Parish warrants, Grant Parish inmate search, Grant Parish court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Grant Parish
In Louisiana the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Grant Parish are heard by the District Court for Grant 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.
For Grant Parish, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the parish at countyinfo.hoursguide.com/grant-parish-county-la-court-records-search (page title: Grant Parish Court Records Search | CountyInfo), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Grant 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 Grant Parish
The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office keeps the arrest records in Grant 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 Grant Parish Sheriff's Office reported 547 arrests to the FBI for 2024; 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 Grant Parish arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Grant Parish in 2024
The one agency in Grant Parish with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 32 violent and 160 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 192 crimes in 2024 against 255 in 2023. 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 Grant Parish public records guide.
The District Attorney for Grant Parish
Charges in Grant 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 Grant Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at grantda.org/contactus.html (page title: Grant DA | Contact Us), phone (318) 627-3205, Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Grant Parish
Registered sex offenders living in Grant 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 Grant 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 gppj.org/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request | Grant Parish Police Jury).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Grant Parish
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Grant Parish and Louisiana. These criminal records pages from its Grant Parish listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- LA Sex Offender Registry (doc.la.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Grant Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Grant 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 my own Louisiana criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Grant Parish?
The District Attorney, reached at (318) 627-3205, which files its cases in the District Court for Grant Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Grant 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.