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.
Pleasanton, Texas, in Atascosa 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 Atascosa 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: Pleasanton public records, Atascosa County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Pleasanton
The FBI lists Pleasanton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Pleasanton Police Department. It reported 607 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 Atascosa County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 543 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Atascosa County: the Pleasanton Independent School District and the Poteet Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Pleasanton 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.
- Pleasanton: 607 for 2025, 626 for 2024, 555 for 2023, 552 for 2022, 638 for 2021 and 624 for 2020.
Pleasanton's 607 arrests in 2025 were down 3 percent from 626 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Pleasanton reported 403 arrests, against 407 in the same months of 2025.
Across Atascosa County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,456 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pleasanton Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Pleasanton 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 230 people on an average day, up from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 250 beds, and it is running at 92 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Pleasanton
For Pleasanton the place to look is the case index of the Atascosa County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at 81-218.txcourts.gov, phone 830-769-3750).
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 Pleasanton
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 Pleasanton police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at pleasantontx.gov/departments/police/contact_us.php (page title: Pleasanton), phone 830-569-3869, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Atascosa County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Atascosa County District Court, through the court records page at 81-218.txcourts.gov, phone 830-769-3750.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Atascosa County guide covers every agency in the county: Atascosa County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pleasanton each year?
Pleasanton reported 607 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Pleasanton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Atascosa County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pleasanton?
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 Pleasanton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pleasanton police for its own arrests, the Atascosa 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 Pleasanton 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.