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 October 2, 2026.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, has about 278,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. 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. Tammany 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, cities and common questions.
Related guides: St. Tammany Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in St. Tammany Parish
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for St. Tammany Parish. It reported 3,943 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in St. Tammany Parish with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Slidell, 28,440 residents: 1,741 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mandeville, 12,973 residents: 345 arrests reported for 2025.
- Covington, 11,686 residents: 333 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pearl River, 2,647 residents: 125 arrests reported for 2023.
- Folsom, 829 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in St. Tammany Parish
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. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office: 3,943 for 2025, 4,205 for 2024, 4,461 for 2023, 3,783 for 2022, 3,624 for 2021 and 5,840 for 2020.
- Slidell: 1,741 for 2025, 1,633 for 2024, 1,446 for 2023, 1,396 for 2022, 1,326 for 2021 and 2,025 for 2020.
- Mandeville: 345 for 2025, 322 for 2024, 290 for 2023, 256 for 2022, 208 for 2021 and 690 for 2020.
- Covington: 333 for 2025, 424 for 2024, 513 for 2023 and 343 for 2022.
- Folsom: 4 for 2025, 2 for 2024 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Pearl River: 125 for 2023, 160 for 2021 and 390 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,366 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,366 in 2025 against 6,586 in 2024, down 3.3 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,612 arrests, against 2,819 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. Tammany Parish Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in St. Tammany 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 910 people, down from about 1,090 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,180 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office at inmates.stpso.revize.com/bookings (page title: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Office Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists its inmates at doc.la.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in St. Tammany Parish
An arrest in St. Tammany Parish can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the parish jail; the case index of the District Court for St. Tammany Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sttammanyclerk.org, phone (985) 809-8700); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at stpgov.org/departments/civil_division_of_district_attorneys_office/..., phone 985-898-3427).
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. Tammany Parish
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Pearl River or Folsom: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 985-898-3427, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for St. Tammany Parish, through the court records page at sttammanyclerk.org, phone (985) 809-8700.
- Any parish record that is not posted: the parish records request page SearchSystems verified is at stpcoroner.org/public-rec-request (page title: Public Records Request | St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in St. Tammany Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the eight cities in St. Tammany Parish: Slidell, Mandeville, Covington, Pearl River and Folsom. Abita Springs, Madisonville and Sun have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the parish the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the parish jail and the case goes to the District Court for St. Tammany Parish.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in St. Tammany Parish, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Mandeville (12,973)
- Covington (11,686)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. Tammany Parish each year?
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office reported 3,943 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,366 between them.
Where are people arrested in St. Tammany Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in St. Tammany Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for St. Tammany 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. Tammany Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. Tammany 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 stpcoroner.org/public-rec-request.
Is this the official St. Tammany 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.