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 4, 2026.
Chambers County, Texas, has about 56,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Chambers 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 Chambers 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: Chambers County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Chambers County
The Chambers County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Chambers County. It reported 918 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Chambers County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Mont Belvieu, 10,229 residents: 387 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 Baytown Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Chambers County, so its arrests are not broken out for Chambers County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Chambers County: the Barbers Hill Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Chambers 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.
- Chambers County Sheriff's Office: 918 for 2025, 936 for 2024, 941 for 2023, 1,108 for 2022, 806 for 2021 and 693 for 2020.
- Mont Belvieu: 387 for 2025, 353 for 2024, 198 for 2023, 73 for 2022, 73 for 2021 and 115 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,305 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,305 in 2025 against 1,289 in 2024, up 1.2 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 867 arrests, against 931 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chambers County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chambers 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 190 people on an average day, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 226 beds, and it is running at 85 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 Chambers County Sheriff's Office at chamberscountytx.gov/175/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Chambers County, TX), phone 409-267-2500, 201 North Court Anahuac, TX 77514, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Chambers County
For Chambers County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at chamberscountytx.gov/435/District-Attorney, phone 409-267-2682).
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 Chambers 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 Chambers County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 409-267-2500.
- An arrest in Mont Belvieu: 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 Barbers Hill 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, 409-267-2682, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at chamberscountytx.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Chambers County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Chambers County: Mont Belvieu. Beach City, Anahuac, Old River-Winfree and Cove 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 Chambers County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Chambers County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Mont Belvieu (10,229)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chambers County each year?
The Chambers County Sheriff's Office reported 918 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,305 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chambers County?
Ask the Chambers County Sheriff's Office at 409-267-2500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at chamberscountytx.gov/175/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Chambers County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chambers County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chambers 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 Chambers County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chambers 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 chamberscountytx.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Chambers 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.