SearchSystems Editorial

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 on September 23, 2026.

About this guide

Bexar County, Texas, has about 2.1 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, 24 city agencies and 15 campus, state or other 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 Bexar 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: Bexar County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Bexar County

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bexar County. It reported 6,041 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 23 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, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • San Antonio, 1,526,656 residents: 46,370 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Converse, 31,400 residents: 488 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Universal City, 20,267 residents: 505 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Live Oak, 16,218 residents: 512 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Selma, 11,900 residents: 326 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Fair Oaks Ranch, 11,744 residents: 92 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Leon Valley, 11,424 residents: 566 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Helotes, 10,223 residents: 182 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Kirby, 8,104 residents: 134 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Alamo Heights, 7,557 residents: 109 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Windcrest, 5,782 residents: 503 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Sandy Oaks, 5,698 residents.

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 Lytle Police Department and the Schertz Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Bexar County, so their arrests are not broken out for Bexar County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bexar County: the University of Texas at Health Science Center, San Antonio, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Alamo Community College District, Trinity University and two more (campus police); the Judson Independent School District, the Bexar County Constable's Precinct 3, the San Antonio Independent School District, the East Central Independent School District and five more (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bexar County

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.

  • San Antonio: 46,370 for 2025, 40,887 for 2024, 39,454 for 2023, 40,603 for 2022, 36,098 for 2021 and 50,528 for 2020.
  • Bexar County Sheriff's Office: 6,041 for 2025, 4,756 for 2024, 3,906 for 2023, 3,499 for 2022, 3,546 for 2021 and 6,199 for 2020.
  • Leon Valley: 566 for 2025, 544 for 2024, 627 for 2023, 421 for 2022, 346 for 2021 and 298 for 2020.
  • Castle Hills: 512 for 2025, 352 for 2024, 276 for 2023, 316 for 2022, 524 for 2021 and 352 for 2020.
  • Live Oak: 512 for 2025, 751 for 2024, 722 for 2023, 646 for 2022, 589 for 2021 and 1,156 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Universal City: 505 for 2025, 777 for 2024, 591 for 2023, 519 for 2022, 588 for 2021 and 819 for 2020.
  • Windcrest: 503 for 2025, 645 for 2024, 544 for 2023, 549 for 2022, 444 for 2021 and 557 for 2020.
  • Converse: 488 for 2025, 602 for 2024, 598 for 2023 and 777 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
  • Selma: 326 for 2025, 295 for 2024, 270 for 2023, 349 for 2022, 339 for 2021 and 273 for 2020.
  • Helotes: 182 for 2025, 267 for 2024, 247 for 2023, 221 for 2022, 146 for 2021 and 160 for 2020.
  • Kirby: 134 for 2025, 173 for 2024, 129 for 2022 and 76 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
  • Alamo Heights: 109 for 2025, 122 for 2024, 93 for 2023, 149 for 2022, 175 for 2021 and 96 for 2020.

Together, the 20 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 56,468 arrests that year. The 19 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 55,956 in 2025 against 50,077 in 2024, up 12 percent.

Through August 2026, the 15 agencies with every month so far on file reported 37,313 arrests, against 36,739 in the same months of 2025.

Balcones Heights, Olmos Park, Von Ormy and Sandy Oaks reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 7 months, 11 months and 9 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Bexar County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Bexar 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 4,590 people on an average day, up from about 3,860 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 5,108 beds, and it is running at 90 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 Bexar County Sheriff's Office at bexar.org/600/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Bexar County Sheriff's Office | Bexar County, TX), phone 210-335-6111, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

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 Bexar County

Whether someone was arrested in Bexar County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Bexar County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bexar.org/3021/Searches-Records, phone 210-335-2011); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bexar.org/3273/District-Attorneys-Office, phone 210-335-2311).

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 Bexar 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 Bexar County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 210-335-6111.
  • An arrest in San Antonio, Converse, Universal City, Live Oak, Selma, Fair Oaks Ranch or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by the University of Texas at Health Science Center, San Antonio, the University of Texas at San Antonio or the Judson Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 210-335-2311, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Bexar County District Court, through the court records page at bexar.org/3021/Searches-Records, phone 210-335-2011.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bexar.org/3500/Public-Records-Requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Bexar County, TX).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Bexar County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 23 of the 25 cities in Bexar County: the twelve named above and Terrell Hills, Castle Hills, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park, Balcones Heights, Elmendorf, Olmos Park, Somerset, Von Ormy, China Grove and Hill Country Village. St. Hedwig and Grey Forest have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Saint Hedwig Police Department as a city agency in Bexar County; Saint Hedwig is not among the cities above.

Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bexar County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bexar County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Bexar County each year?

San Antonio reported 46,370 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 20 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 56,468 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bexar County?

Ask the Bexar County Sheriff's Office at 210-335-6111; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bexar.org/600/Sheriffs-Office.

Where are people arrested in Bexar County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Bexar 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 Bexar County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Bexar 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bexar.org/3500/Public-Records-Requests.

Is this the official Bexar 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.