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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Woodway, Texas, in McLennan County, has about 9,700 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 McLennan 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: Woodway public records, McLennan County arrest records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Woodway
The FBI lists Woodway with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Woodway Police Department. It reported 82 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 McLennan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 741 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in McLennan County: the McLennan County Constable's Precinct 1, the Waco Independent School District, the West Independent School District, the Valley Mills Independent School District and three more (other); McLennan Community College, Texas State Technical College at Waco and Baylor University at Waco (campus police).
How Many Arrests Woodway 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.
- Woodway: 82 for 2025, 193 for 2021, 106 for 2020 and 187 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Through August 2026, Woodway reported 64 arrests, against 65 in the same months of 2025.
Across McLennan County, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,539 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Woodway Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Woodway 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 1,410 people on an average day, up from about 1,340 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,774 beds, and it is running at 80 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 McLennan County Sheriff's Office at mclennan.gov/185/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | McLennan County, TX), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
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 Woodway
Whether someone was arrested in Woodway, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the McLennan County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mclennan.gov/166/County-Clerk, phone 254-759-5619); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at mclennan.gov/282/District-Attorney, phone 254-757-5084).
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 Woodway
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 Woodway police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at woodwaytexas.gov/communications-records (page title: Communications & Records | Woodway, TX), phone 254.772.4470, 920 Estates Drive Woodway, TX 76712, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the McLennan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 254-757-5084, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the McLennan County District Court, through the court records page at mclennan.gov/166/County-Clerk, phone 254-759-5619.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mclennan.gov/508/Request (page title: Request | McLennan County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The McLennan County guide covers every agency in the county: McLennan County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Woodway each year?
Woodway reported 82 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Woodway booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the McLennan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Woodway?
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 Woodway?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Woodway police for its own arrests, the McLennan 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 mclennan.gov/508/Request.
Is this the official Woodway 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.