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 2023. 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 1, 2026.
Cameron, Texas, in Milam County, has about 5,500 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 Milam 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: Cameron public records, Milam County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cameron
The FBI lists Cameron with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cameron Police Department. It reported 37 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. 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 Milam County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 160 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Milam County: the Milam County Constable's Precincts 4 and 2 (other).
How Many Arrests Cameron 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.
- Cameron: 37 for 2023, 104 for 2022, 140 for 2021 and 97 for 2020.
Cameron's 37 arrests in 2023 were down 64 percent from 104 in 2022.
Across Milam County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 270 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cameron Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cameron 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 110 people on an average day, down from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 160 beds, and it is running at 71 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Cameron
For Cameron the place to look is the case index of the Milam County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at newtools.cira.state.tx.us/page/milam.distclerk, phone 254-697-7052).
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 Cameron
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 Cameron police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at camerontexas.net/page/dept-Police (page title: Cameron, Texas), phone (254) 697-6574, 605 West 4th Street Cameron, TX 76520, Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Milam County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Milam County District Court, through the court records page at newtools.cira.state.tx.us, phone 254-697-7052.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Milam County guide covers every agency in the county: Milam County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cameron each year?
Cameron reported 37 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cameron booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Milam County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cameron?
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 Cameron?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cameron police for its own arrests, the Milam 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 Cameron 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.