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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Texas County, Missouri, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Texas County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Texas County Circuit Court. 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: Texas County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Texas County
The Texas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Texas County. It reported 221 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists four cities in Texas County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Licking, 2,969 residents: 23 arrests reported for 2025.
- Houston, 2,191 residents: 187 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cabool, 2,059 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Summersville, 470 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2020.
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.
The Mountain Grove Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Texas County, so its arrests are not broken out for Texas County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Texas County
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.
- Houston: 187 for 2025, 259 for 2023, 398 for 2022, 307 for 2021, 238 for 2020 and 452 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Licking: 23 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 15 for 2023, 14 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 65 for 2020.
- Cabool: 9 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 217 for 2020.
- Texas County Sheriff's Office: 221 for 2024, 178 for 2023, 162 for 2022, 173 for 2021, 257 for 2020 and 311 for 2019.
- Summersville: 2 for 2020 and 14 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 219 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 32 in 2025 against 34 in 2024.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 126 arrests, against 94 in the same months of 2025.
Texas County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Texas County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Texas County is held at the county 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 46 people, down from about 52 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 72 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Texas County Sheriff's Office at jctxsheriff.org/texas (page title: Texas Inmate Search | Texas DOC Offender Lookup), 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 Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Texas County
Whether someone was arrested in Texas County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Texas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Texas County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at texascountymissouri.gov/government/elected-officials/circuit-clerk, phone 417-967-3742); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at texascountymissouri.gov/government/elected-officials/prosecuting-at..., phone 417-967-2029).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Texas County
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 Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Texas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Licking, Houston, Cabool or Summersville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 417-967-2029, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Texas County Circuit Court, through the court records page at texascountymissouri.gov, phone 417-967-3742.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Texas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Texas County: Licking, Houston, Cabool and Summersville. Raymondville and Plato have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Texas County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Texas County each year?
Houston reported 187 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 219 between them.
Where are people arrested in Texas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Texas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Texas County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Texas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Texas County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Texas County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.