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.
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, has about 254,000 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 Lafayette 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: Lafayette Parish public records, Lafayette Parish arrest records, Lafayette Parish warrants, Lafayette Parish inmate search, Lafayette Parish court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Lafayette Parish
In Louisiana the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Lafayette Parish are heard by the District Court for Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the parish at lpclerk.com/online-records (page title: Online Records | Access Records Online Today | Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court), phone (337)291-6303, 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 Lafayette Parish
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Lafayette, Youngsville, Broussard, Carencro and Scott keep the arrest records in Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish: the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and South Louisiana Community College (campus police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the five agencies in Lafayette Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,024 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 Lafayette Parish arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Lafayette Parish in 2025
The five agencies in Lafayette Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,741 violent and 5,653 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 7,394 crimes in 2025 against 8,622 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 Lafayette Parish public records guide.
The District Attorney for Lafayette Parish
Charges in Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at 16jda.com (page title: 16th Judicial District of Louisiana District Attorney's Office | New Iberia, LA), phone (337) 828-4100, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
The Sex Offender Registry for Lafayette Parish
Registered sex offenders living in Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Lafayette Parish
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Lafayette Parish and Louisiana. These criminal records pages from its Lafayette Parish listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Crime Map (lafayettesheriff.com)
- Subscribe to Daily Arrest Report (lafayettesheriff.com)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Lafayette Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at lpclerk.com/online-records (page title: Online Records | Access Records Online Today | Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court).
How do I get my own Louisiana criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Lafayette Parish?
The District Attorney, reached at (337) 828-4100, which files its cases in the District Court for Lafayette Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Lafayette 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.