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 September 25, 2026.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, has about 45,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard 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 and common questions.
Related guides: St. Bernard Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in St. Bernard Parish
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for St. Bernard Parish. It reported 1,773 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The St. Bernard 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.
- St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office: 1,773 for 2025, 1,702 for 2024, 1,919 for 2023 and 1,629 for 2022.
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office's 1,773 arrests in 2025 were up 4.2 percent from 1,702 in 2024.
Through August 2026, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office reported 1,060 arrests, against 1,177 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. Bernard Parish Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in St. Bernard Parish is held at the parish jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 210 people, up from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 266 beds, and it ran at 80 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 St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office at stbernard.lavns.org (page title: St. Bernard Parish Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 St. Bernard Parish
For St. Bernard Parish the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at stbda.org).
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 St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at sbpg.net/201/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | St. Bernard Parish, LA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. Bernard Parish each year?
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office reported 1,773 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in St. Bernard Parish?
Ask the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at stbernard.lavns.org.
Where are people arrested in St. Bernard Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in St. Bernard Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for St. Bernard 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 St. Bernard Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. Bernard 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; the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at sbpg.net/201/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official St. Bernard 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.