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.
Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, has about 158,000 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 Ouachita 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: Ouachita Parish public records, Ouachita Parish arrest records, Ouachita Parish warrants, Ouachita Parish inmate search, Ouachita Parish court records, Louisiana arrest records and Louisiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Ouachita Parish
In Louisiana the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Ouachita Parish are heard by the District Court for Ouachita 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 opclerkofcourt.com (page title: Ouachita Clerk of Court), 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 Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Monroe, West Monroe and Sterlington keep the arrest records in Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish: the University of Louisiana at Monroe (campus police); the Tensas Basin Levee District (state agency); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the four agencies in Ouachita Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,783 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 Ouachita Parish arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Ouachita Parish in 2025
The three agencies in Ouachita Parish with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,378 violent and 5,085 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,463 crimes in 2025 against 7,081 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 Ouachita Parish public records guide.
The District Attorney for Ouachita Parish
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Ouachita Parish become charges and files them in the District Court for Ouachita 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 govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-laed-2_09-cv-03246 (page title: 09-3246 | Murray v. Ouachita Parish District Attorney Office et al | USCOURTS-laed-2_09-cv-03246 | Content Det), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Ouachita Parish
Registered sex offenders living in Ouachita 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 Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the parish is at opclerkofcourt.com (page title: Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the District Court for Ouachita Parish or the City Courts and Parish Courts.
Is this the official Ouachita 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.