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.
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, has about 427,000 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 Jefferson 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: Jefferson Parish public records, Jefferson Parish arrest records, Jefferson Parish warrants, Jefferson Parish inmate search, Jefferson Parish court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Jefferson Parish
A criminal case from Jefferson Parish is filed in the District Court for Jefferson Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small civil claims; mayor's courts handle town ordinance tickets, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at jeffparishclerk.gov (page title: Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court | Official website of the Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court Office), phone (504) 364-2900, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Jefferson Parish
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Kenner, Gretna, Harahan, Westwego and Jean Lafitte keep the arrest records in Jefferson 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.
Together, the five agencies in Jefferson Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,353 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 Jefferson Parish arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Jefferson Parish in 2025
The five agencies in Jefferson Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,138 violent and 8,274 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 9,412 crimes in 2025 against 11,252 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 Jefferson Parish public records guide.
The District Attorney for Jefferson Parish
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Jefferson Parish become charges and files them in the District Court for Jefferson 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 jeffparish.gov/m/directory/department?did=59 (page title: Staff Directory, Parish Attorney's Office), phone 504-736-6300, 1221 Elmwood Park Boulevard Suite 701 Jefferson, LA 70123, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 2, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Jefferson Parish
Registered sex offenders living in Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 jeffparish.gov/420/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Jefferson Parish, LA).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Jefferson Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Jefferson 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 Jefferson Parish criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at jeffparishclerk.gov (page title: Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court | Official website of the Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court Office).
How do I get my own Louisiana criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Jefferson Parish?
The District Attorney, reached at 504-736-6300, which files its cases in the District Court for Jefferson Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Jefferson 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.