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 9, 2026.
Lindale, Texas, in Smith County, has about 7,200 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 Smith 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: Lindale public records, Smith County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lindale
The FBI lists Lindale with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lindale Police Department. It reported 105 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 Smith County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,516 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Smith County: the Smith County Constable's Precincts 4, 2, 3 and 5, the Chapel Hill Independent School District, the Tyler Independent School District, the Lindale Independent School District and two more (other); Tyler Junior College and the University of Texas at Tyler (campus police).
How Many Arrests Lindale 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.
- Lindale: 105 for 2025, 93 for 2024, 95 for 2023, 97 for 2022, 134 for 2021 and 135 for 2020.
Lindale's 105 arrests in 2025 were up 13 percent from 93 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Lindale reported 69 arrests, against 68 in the same months of 2025.
Across Smith County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,493 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lindale Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lindale 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 880 people on an average day, up from about 860 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,149 beds, and it is running at 76 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 Smith County Sheriff's Office at smith-county.com/m/directory/department?did=94 (page title: Staff Directory, Sheriff's Office), phone 903-590-2661, 227 N Spring Avenue Tyler, TX 75702, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Lindale
An arrest in Lindale can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Smith County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at smith.tx.publicsearch.us); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at smith-county.com/270/District-Attorney, phone 903-590-1720).
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 Lindale
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 Lindale police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at lindaletx.gov/159/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Lindale, TX), phone 903-882-3313, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Smith County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 903-590-2661.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 903-590-1720, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Smith County District Court, through the court records page at smith.tx.publicsearch.us.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Smith County guide covers every agency in the county: Smith County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lindale each year?
Lindale reported 105 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lindale?
Ask the Smith County Sheriff's Office at 903-590-2661; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at smith-county.com.
Where are people arrested in Lindale booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Smith County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lindale?
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 Lindale?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lindale police for its own arrests, the Smith 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 Lindale 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.