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.
Pearland, Texas, in Brazoria County, has about 130,000 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 Brazoria 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: Pearland public records, Brazoria County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Pearland
The FBI lists Pearland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Pearland Police Department. It reported 3,646 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 Brazoria County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,746 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Brazoria County: the Brazoria County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Alvin Independent School District, the Angleton Independent School District, the Columbia-Brazoria Independent School District and three more (other); Brazosport College and Alvin Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Pearland 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.
- Pearland: 3,646 for 2025, 3,957 for 2024, 4,026 for 2023, 3,971 for 2022, 3,371 for 2021 and 2,892 for 2020.
Pearland's 3,646 arrests in 2025 were down 7.9 percent from 3,957 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Pearland reported 2,189 arrests, against 2,505 in the same months of 2025.
Across Brazoria County, the 18 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,863 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pearland Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pearland 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 960 people on an average day, up from about 830 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,170 beds, and it is running at 82 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 Brazoria County Sheriff's Office at brazoriacountytx.gov/departments/sheriff-s-office/detention-center (page title: Detention Center | Brazoria County, TX), phone (979)864-2336, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Pearland
An arrest in Pearland can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Brazoria County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at brazoriacountyclerktx.gov/departments/criminal/search-and-request-c...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at brazoriacountytx.gov/departments/district-attorney).
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 Pearland
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 Pearland police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at pearlandtx.gov/departments/police/online-reporting-records (page title: Online Reporting & Records | City of Pearland, TX), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (979)864-2336.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Brazoria County District Court, through the court records page at brazoriacountyclerktx.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Brazoria County guide covers every agency in the county: Brazoria County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pearland each year?
Pearland reported 3,646 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pearland?
Ask the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office at (979)864-2336; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at brazoriacountytx.gov.
Where are people arrested in Pearland booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pearland?
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 Pearland?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pearland police for its own arrests, the Brazoria 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 Pearland 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.