Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 October 9, 2026.
Aransas County, Texas, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Aransas County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest 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 Aransas County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Aransas County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Aransas County
The Aransas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Aransas County. It reported 1,255 arrests for 2019, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Rockport, 11,069 residents: 266 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fulton, 1,612 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Aransas Pass Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Aransas County, so its arrests are not broken out for Aransas County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Aransas County
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.
- Rockport: 266 for 2025, 533 for 2024, 608 for 2023, 627 for 2022, 529 for 2021 and 444 for 2020.
- Fulton: 12 for 2025 and 6 for 2024.
- Aransas County Sheriff's Office: 1,255 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 278 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 12 in 2025 against 6 in 2024.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 224 arrests, against 179 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Aransas County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Aransas County 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 160 people on an average day, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 212 beds, and it is running at 76 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 Aransas County Sheriff's Office at aransascounty.org/detentioncenter (page title: Aransas County Detention Center), 308 N Live Oak St, Rockport, TX 78382-2745, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice lists its inmates at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/start.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Aransas County
Whether someone was arrested in Aransas County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Aransas County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at aransascountytx.gov/districtclerk/dockets.php); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.aransas.tx.us, phone 361-790-0114).
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 Aransas County
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 Aransas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Rockport or Fulton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 361-790-0114, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Aransas County District Court, through the court records page at aransascountytx.gov/districtclerk/dockets.php.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The other Aransas County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Aransas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Aransas County: Rockport and Fulton.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Aransas County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Aransas County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Rockport (11,069)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Aransas County each year?
Rockport reported 266 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 278 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Aransas County?
Ask the Aransas County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at aransascounty.org/detentioncenter.
Where are people arrested in Aransas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Aransas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Aransas County?
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 Aransas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Aransas County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Texas Public Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Aransas County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.