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 2024. 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 23, 2026.
Seminole, Texas, in Gaines County, has about 7,400 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 Gaines 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: Seminole public records, Gaines County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Seminole
The FBI lists Seminole with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Seminole Police Department. It reported 294 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Gaines County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 138 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Seminole 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.
- Seminole: 294 for 2024, 280 for 2023, 296 for 2022, 223 for 2021, 235 for 2020 and 334 for 2019.
Seminole's 294 arrests in 2024 were up 5 percent from 280 in 2023.
Across Gaines County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 391 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Seminole Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Seminole 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 57 people on an average day, up from about 41 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 96 beds, and it is running at 59 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 Seminole
Whether someone was arrested in Seminole, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gaines County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.gaines.tx.us/page/gaines.dockets); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.gaines.tx.us/page/gaines.District.Attorney, phone (432) 758-5411).
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 Seminole
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 agency that reports for Seminole: its own records unit.
- An arrest by the Gaines County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (432) 758-5411, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gaines County District Court, through the court records page at co.gaines.tx.us/page/gaines.dockets.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Gaines County guide covers every agency in the county: Gaines County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Seminole each year?
Seminole reported 294 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Seminole booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gaines County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Seminole?
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 Seminole?
From the agency that made the arrest: the agency that reports for Seminole for its own arrests, the Gaines 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 Seminole 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.