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 26, 2026.
Breckenridge, Texas, in Stephens County, has about 5,200 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 Stephens 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: Breckenridge public records, Stephens County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Breckenridge
The FBI lists Breckenridge with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Breckenridge Police Department. It reported 220 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 Stephens County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 31 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Stephens County: Stephens County Constable at Breckenridge (other).
How Many Arrests Breckenridge 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.
- Breckenridge: 220 for 2025, 184 for 2024, 210 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 262 for 2021 and 255 for 2020.
Breckenridge's 220 arrests in 2025 were up 20 percent from 184 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Breckenridge reported 97 arrests, against 141 in the same months of 2025.
Across Stephens County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 251 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Breckenridge Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Breckenridge 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 27 people on an average day, down from about 28 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 54 beds, and it is running at 50 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 Stephens County Sheriff's Office at stephenssheriff-ok.gov/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Stephens County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists its inmates at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Breckenridge
Whether someone was arrested in Breckenridge, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Stephens County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Stephens County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.stephens.tx.us/page/stephens.district.attorney, phone 254-559-7333).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.stephens.tx.us/page/stephens.County.Court.Dockets (page title: County Court Dockets | Stephens County), belongs to a lower court, not to the Stephens County District Court.
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 Breckenridge
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 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 Breckenridge police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at breckenridgetx.gov/departments/city_secretary/open_records_request.php (page title: Breckenridge), phone (254)559-7322, 105 N. Rose Ave, Breckenridge TX 76424, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Stephens County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 254-559-7333, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Stephens County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.stephens.tx.us, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Stephens County guide covers every agency in the county: Stephens County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Breckenridge each year?
Breckenridge reported 220 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Breckenridge?
Look on the custody page of the Stephens County Sheriff's Office at stephenssheriff-ok.gov/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Breckenridge booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stephens County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Breckenridge?
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 Breckenridge?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Breckenridge police for its own arrests, the Stephens County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Breckenridge 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.