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 October 1, 2026.
Leander, Texas, in Williamson County, has about 88,000 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 Williamson 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: Leander public records, Williamson County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Leander
The FBI lists Leander with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Leander Police Department. It reported 522 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 Williamson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,118 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Williamson County: the Williamson County Constable's Precincts 3, 4, 2 and 1, the Hutto Independent School District, the Liberty Hill Independent School District, the Round Rock Independent School District and one more (other); Southwestern University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Leander 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.
- Leander: 522 for 2025, 535 for 2024, 472 for 2023, 564 for 2022, 562 for 2021 and 527 for 2020.
Leander's 522 arrests in 2025 were down 2.4 percent from 535 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Leander reported 396 arrests, against 347 in the same months of 2025.
Across Williamson County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,720 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Leander Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Leander 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 640 people on an average day, up from about 550 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,104 beds, and it is running at 58 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 Williamson County Sheriff's Office at wilcotx.gov/649/Corrections-Bureau (page title: Corrections Bureau | Williamson County, TX), phone 866-345-1884, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
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 Leander
Whether someone was arrested in Leander, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Williamson County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at wilcotx.gov/256/District-Attorney, phone 512-943-1234).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at wilcotx.gov/257/Court-Case (page title: Williamson County Court Case Lookup | Williamson County, TX), belongs to a lower court, not to the Williamson County District Court.
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 Leander
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 Leander police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at leandertx.gov/442/Police-Records-Permits (page title: Police Records & Permits | Leander, TX), phone 512-528-2800, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 866-345-1884.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 512-943-1234, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Williamson County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at wilcotx.gov/257/Court-Case, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at wilcotx.gov/419/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Williamson County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Williamson County guide covers every agency in the county: Williamson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Leander each year?
Leander reported 522 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Leander?
Ask the Williamson County Sheriff's Office at 866-345-1884; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at wilcotx.gov/649/Corrections-Bureau.
Where are people arrested in Leander booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Williamson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Leander?
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 Leander?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Leander police for its own arrests, the Williamson 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 wilcotx.gov/419/Open-Records-Request.
Is this the official Leander 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.