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.
Coleman County, Texas, has about 8,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Coleman County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies 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 Coleman 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: Coleman County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Coleman County
The Coleman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Coleman County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Coleman County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Coleman, 4,042 residents: 36 arrests reported for 2025.
- Santa Anna, 1,052 residents: 0 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 Coleman County: the Coleman County Constable (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Coleman 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.
- Coleman: 36 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 89 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 24 for 2021 and 0 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Santa Anna: 0 for 2025, 16 for 2024, 16 for 2023 and 4 for 2022.
- Coleman County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 36 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 36 in 2025 against 68 in 2024, down 47 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 28 arrests, against 24 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Coleman County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Coleman 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 37 people on an average day, up from about 29 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 57 beds, and it is running at 65 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Coleman 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 Coleman 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 Coleman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Coleman or Santa Anna: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Coleman County Constable: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Coleman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Coleman County: Coleman and Santa Anna. Novice has 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 Coleman County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Coleman County each year?
Coleman reported 36 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 36 between them.
Where are people arrested in Coleman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coleman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Coleman 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 Coleman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Coleman 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 Coleman 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.