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 25, 2026.
Paris, Texas, in Lamar County, has about 25,000 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 Lamar 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: Paris public records, Lamar County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Paris
The FBI lists Paris with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Paris Police Department. It reported 608 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 Lamar County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 276 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lamar County: the Chisum Independent School District, the Prairiland Independent School District, the Lamar County Constable's Precinct 2, the Paris Independent School District and one more (other); Paris Junior College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Paris 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.
- Paris: 608 for 2025, 785 for 2024, 727 for 2023, 757 for 2022, 663 for 2021 and 668 for 2020.
Paris's 608 arrests in 2025 were down 23 percent from 785 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Paris reported 462 arrests, against 436 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lamar County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 911 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Paris Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Paris 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 150 people on an average day, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 196 beds, and it is running at 74 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 Paris
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 Paris
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 Paris police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at paristexas.gov/593/Records-Division (page title: Records Division | Paris), phone (903) 737-4114, 2910 Clarksville St. Paris, TX 75460, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Lamar County guide covers every agency in the county: Lamar County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Paris each year?
Paris reported 608 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Paris booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Paris?
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 Paris?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Paris police for its own arrests, the Lamar 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 Paris 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.