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.
Richmond, Texas, in Fort Bend County, has about 13,000 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 Fort Bend 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: Richmond public records, Fort Bend County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Richmond
The FBI lists Richmond with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Richmond Police Department. It reported 229 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 Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,965 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Fort Bend County: the Needville Independent School District, the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, the Fort Bend County Constable's Precincts 4, 2, 1 and 3, the Fort Bend Independent School District and one more (other).
How Many Arrests Richmond 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.
- Richmond: 229 for 2025, 385 for 2024, 224 for 2023, 308 for 2022, 212 for 2021 and 238 for 2020.
Richmond's 229 arrests in 2025 were down 41 percent from 385 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Richmond reported 133 arrests, against 146 in the same months of 2025.
Across Fort Bend County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,705 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Richmond Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Richmond 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 890 people on an average day, up from about 840 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,770 beds, and it is running at 50 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/sheriff-s-office/bureau... (page title: Detention Booking and Release | Fort Bend County), phone 281-341-4665, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Richmond
An arrest in Richmond can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Fort Bend County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/fort-bend-county-distri..., phone 281-342-3411); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/district-attorney, phone 281-342-3411).
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 Richmond
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 Richmond police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at richmondtx.gov/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Richmond), phone (281) 342-2849, 600 Preston Street Richmond, TX 77469, mond Farmers Market 10/02/2026 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 281-341-4665.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 281-342-3411, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fort Bend County District Court, through the court records page at fortbendcountytx.gov, phone 281-342-3411.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fortbendcountytx.gov (page title: Public Information Request | Fort Bend County).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Fort Bend County guide covers every agency in the county: Fort Bend County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Richmond each year?
Richmond reported 229 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Richmond?
Look on the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office at fortbendcountytx.gov, or call 281-341-4665. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Richmond booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Richmond?
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 Richmond?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Richmond police for its own arrests, the Fort Bend 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 fortbendcountytx.gov.
Is this the official Richmond 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.