Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 September 25, 2026.
Amarillo, Texas, in Randall County, has about 204,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Randall County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Amarillo public records, Randall County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Amarillo
The FBI lists Amarillo with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Amarillo Police Department. It reported 4,824 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Randall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 198 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Randall County: West Texas A&M University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Amarillo Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Amarillo: 4,824 for 2025, 4,678 for 2024, 4,295 for 2023, 4,309 for 2022, 4,605 for 2021 and 3,847 for 2020.
Amarillo's 4,824 arrests in 2025 were up 3.1 percent from 4,678 in 2024.
Across Randall County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,224 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Amarillo Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Amarillo 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 370 people on an average day, down from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 550 beds, and it is running at 67 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Randall County Sheriff's Office at randallso.gov/inmateSearch (page title: Jail Roster | Randall County Sheriff's Office, TX), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, whose inmate locator is at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Amarillo
An arrest in Amarillo can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Randall County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Randall County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at randallcounty.gov/219/Court-Information); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at randallcounty.gov/216/District-Attorney, phone 806-468-5570).
Texas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3 a search, through the Texas Department of Public Safety. 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 Amarillo
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Texas Public Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests.
- An arrest by the Amarillo police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at amarillo.gov/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Amarillo), phone 806-378-3038, 911 Amarillo Police Department 200 SE 3rd Ave Amarillo, TX 79101, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Randall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 806-468-5570, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Randall County District Court, through the court records page at randallcounty.gov/219/Court-Information.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at randallso.gov/openRecordsRequest (page title: Open Records Request | Randall County Sheriff's Office, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Randall County guide covers every agency in the county: Randall County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Amarillo each year?
Amarillo reported 4,824 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Amarillo?
Look on the custody page of the Randall County Sheriff's Office at randallso.gov/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Amarillo booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Randall County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Amarillo?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety: the Conviction Database search lets anyone look up convictions and deferred adjudications by name, for $3. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Texas Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Amarillo?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Amarillo police for its own arrests, the Randall County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at randallso.gov/openRecordsRequest.
Is this the official Amarillo website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.