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.
Kennedale, Texas, in Tarrant County, has about 11,000 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 Tarrant 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: Kennedale public records, Tarrant County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kennedale
The FBI lists Kennedale with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kennedale Police Department. It reported 102 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 Tarrant County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 980 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Tarrant County: the White Settlement Independent School District, the Tarrant County Constable's Precincts 1 and 3, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Tarrant County Hospital District and five more (other); Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas Christian University, the Tarrant County College District and one more (campus police).
How Many Arrests Kennedale 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.
- Kennedale: 102 for 2025, 113 for 2024, 128 for 2023, 132 for 2022, 101 for 2021 and 73 for 2020.
Kennedale's 102 arrests in 2025 were down 9.7 percent from 113 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Kennedale reported 101 arrests, against 53 in the same months of 2025.
Across Tarrant County, the 33 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 44,043 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kennedale Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kennedale 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 4,480 people on an average day, up from about 4,010 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 5,015 beds, and it is running at 89 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 Tarrant County Sheriff's Office at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/inmate-search.html (page title: Inmate Search), 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 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 Kennedale
Whether someone was arrested in Kennedale, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Tarrant County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/justice-of-the-peace-courts/justice-5/civil-...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tarrantcountytx.gov/en/criminal-district-attorney/criminal-division..., phone 817-884-1400).
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 Kennedale
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 Kennedale police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofkennedale.com/172/Accident-Incident-Reports (page title: Accident & Incident Reports | Kennedale, TX), phone 817-985-2168, 401 Municipal Drive Kennedale, TX 76060, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 817-884-1400, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Tarrant County District Court, through the court records page at tarrantcountytx.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Tarrant County guide covers every agency in the county: Tarrant County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kennedale each year?
Kennedale reported 102 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kennedale?
Look on the custody page of the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office at tarrantcountytx.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Kennedale booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kennedale?
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 Kennedale?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kennedale police for its own arrests, the Tarrant 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 Kennedale 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.