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 on September 24, 2026.
West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, has about 9,300 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 West Carroll 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: West Carroll Parish public records, Louisiana arrest records, Louisiana inmate search and Louisiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in West Carroll Parish
The West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for West Carroll Parish. It reported 15 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in West Carroll Parish with a reporting agency of its own:
- Oak Grove, 1,350 residents: 18 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 West Carroll 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.
- Oak Grove: 18 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 13 for 2023 and 185 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office: 15 for 2025, 24 for 2024, 50 for 2023, 41 for 2022, 25 for 2021 and 234 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 33 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 33 in 2025 against 54 in 2024, down 39 percent.
Through March 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1 arrests, against 13 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in West Carroll Parish Are Held
The parish jail is where a person arrested in West Carroll Parish and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 28 people, up from about 26 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 26 beds, and it ran at 100 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 West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office at westcarrollsheriff.net (page title: West Carroll Sheriff's Department), phone 318-428-2331, 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 West Carroll Parish
For West Carroll Parish the place to look is the case index of the District Court for West Carroll Parish, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at westcarrollclerk.org, phone (318) 428-3281).
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 West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 318-428-2331.
- An arrest in Oak Grove: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for West Carroll Parish, through the court records page at westcarrollclerk.org, phone (318) 428-3281.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in West Carroll Parish: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in West Carroll Parish: Oak Grove. Epps, Kilbourne, Forest and Pioneer 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 West Carroll Parish.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in West Carroll Parish each year?
Oak Grove reported 18 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 33 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in West Carroll Parish?
Ask the West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office at 318-428-2331; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at westcarrollsheriff.net.
Where are people arrested in West Carroll Parish booked?
Those kept in custody go to the parish jail, run by the West Carroll Parish Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in West Carroll Parish?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for West Carroll 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 West Carroll Parish?
From the agency that made the arrest: the West Carroll 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.
Is this the official West Carroll 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.