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 26, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Granite Shoals, Texas, in Burnet County, has about 5,400 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 Burnet 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: Granite Shoals public records, Burnet County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Granite Shoals
The FBI lists Granite Shoals with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Granite Shoals Police Department. It reported 175 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 Burnet County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 354 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Burnet County: the Burnet County Constable's Precincts 4, 1, 2 and 3 (other).
How Many Arrests Granite Shoals Reports
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.
- Granite Shoals: 175 for 2025, 151 for 2024 and 149 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Granite Shoals's 175 arrests in 2025 were up 16 percent from 151 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Granite Shoals reported 196 arrests, against 132 in the same months of 2025.
Across Burnet County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 855 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Granite Shoals Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Granite Shoals 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 430 people on an average day, up from about 340 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 587 beds, and it is running at 73 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 Granite Shoals
For Granite Shoals the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at burnetcountytexas.org/1408/District-Attorney, phone 512-756-5462).
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 Granite Shoals
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 Granite Shoals police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at graniteshoals.org/180/Police (page title: Police | Granite Shoals, TX), phone (830)693-3611, 410 N. Phillips Ranch Road Granite Shoals, TX 78654, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Burnet County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 512-756-5462, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Burnet County guide covers every agency in the county: Burnet County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Granite Shoals each year?
Granite Shoals reported 175 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Granite Shoals booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Burnet County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Granite Shoals?
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 Granite Shoals?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Granite Shoals police for its own arrests, the Burnet 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 Granite Shoals 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.