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 30, 2026.
Callahan County, Texas, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Callahan County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one other agency. 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 Callahan 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: Callahan County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Callahan County
The Callahan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Callahan County. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
One city in Callahan County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Clyde, 4,051 residents: 22 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Callahan County: the Eula Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Callahan 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.
- Clyde: 22 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 37 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 116 for 2020 and 268 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Callahan County Sheriff's Office: 9 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 23 for 2020 and 134 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 31 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 31 in 2025 against 19 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 17 arrests, against 15 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Callahan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Callahan 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 5 people on an average day, up from about 5 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 10 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 jail page of the Callahan County Sheriff's Office at callahancounty.org/page/callahan.Sheriff (page title: Callahan County, Texas), phone 325.854.1444, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Callahan County
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 Callahan County
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 Callahan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 325.854.1444.
- An arrest in Clyde: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Eula Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Callahan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Callahan County: Clyde. Baird, Cross Plains and Putnam have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Callahan County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Callahan County each year?
Clyde reported 22 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 31 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Callahan County?
Ask the Callahan County Sheriff's Office at 325.854.1444; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at callahancounty.org/page/callahan.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Callahan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Callahan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Callahan 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 Callahan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Callahan 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 Callahan 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.