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 on September 26, 2026.
Horseshoe Bay, Texas, in Llano 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 Llano 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: Horseshoe Bay public records, Llano County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Horseshoe Bay
The FBI lists Horseshoe Bay with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Horseshoe Bay Police Department. It reported 35 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 Llano County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 194 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Llano County: the Llano County Constable's Precincts 4, 1, 2 and 3 and the Llano Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Horseshoe Bay 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.
- Horseshoe Bay: 35 for 2025, 48 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 61 for 2022, 41 for 2021 and 25 for 2020.
Horseshoe Bay's 35 arrests in 2025 were down 27 percent from 48 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Horseshoe Bay reported 14 arrests, against 31 in the same months of 2025.
Across Llano County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 273 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Horseshoe Bay Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Horseshoe Bay 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 41 people on an average day, up from about 39 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 54 beds, and it is running at 76 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Horseshoe Bay
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 Horseshoe Bay
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 Horseshoe Bay police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at horseshoe-bay-tx.gov/227/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Horseshoe Bay, TX), phone 830-598-2633, 1405 Mormon Mill Rd Ste A, Marble Falls, TX 78654, Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Llano County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at llanocounty.gov/page/PublicInformation (page title: Public Information Records Request | Llano County, Texas).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Llano County guide covers every agency in the county: Llano County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Horseshoe Bay each year?
Horseshoe Bay reported 35 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Horseshoe Bay booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Llano County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Horseshoe Bay?
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 Horseshoe Bay?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Horseshoe Bay police for its own arrests, the Llano 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 llanocounty.gov/page/PublicInformation.
Is this the official Horseshoe Bay 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.