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.
Dumas, Texas, in Moore County, has about 15,000 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 Moore 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: Dumas public records, Moore County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Dumas
The FBI lists Dumas with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Dumas Police Department. It reported 374 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 92 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Moore County: the Dumas Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Dumas 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.
- Dumas: 374 for 2025, 371 for 2024, 412 for 2023, 540 for 2022, 376 for 2021 and 350 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Dumas's 374 arrests in 2025 were up 0.8 percent from 371 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Dumas reported 213 arrests, against 236 in the same months of 2025.
Across Moore County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 586 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dumas Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dumas 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 43 people on an average day, down from about 44 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 62 beds, and it is running at 69 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Moore County Sheriff's Office at co.moore.tx.us/page/moore.sheriff (page title: Moore County, Texas), phone 806-935-4145, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Dumas
An arrest in Dumas can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Moore County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.moore.tx.us/page/moore.district.clerk, phone 806-935-4218); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.moore.tx.us/page/moore.district.attorney, phone 806-935-5654).
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 Dumas
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 Dumas police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at dumastx.gov/government/departments/police/services/index.php (page title: City of Dumas, TX), phone 806-935-6104, 124 W 6th St., Dumas, TX 79029, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Moore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 806-935-4145.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 806-935-5654, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Moore County District Court, through the court records page at co.moore.tx.us/page/moore.district.clerk, phone 806-935-4218.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Moore County guide covers every agency in the county: Moore County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dumas each year?
Dumas reported 374 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dumas?
Ask the Moore County Sheriff's Office at 806-935-4145; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.moore.tx.us/page/moore.sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Dumas booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Moore County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dumas?
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 Dumas?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dumas police for its own arrests, the Moore 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 Dumas 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.