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.
Comal County, Texas, has about 202,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Comal County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and four 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 Comal 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: Comal County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Comal County
The Comal County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Comal County. It reported 1,084 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Comal County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- New Braunfels, 116,477 residents: 3,198 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bulverde, 7,198 residents: 111 arrests reported for 2025.
- Garden Ridge, 4,378 residents: 19 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 Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department, the Selma Police Department and the Schertz Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Comal County, so their arrests are not broken out for Comal County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Comal County: the Comal County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Comal 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.
- New Braunfels: 3,198 for 2025, 3,212 for 2024, 2,826 for 2023, 2,753 for 2022, 2,074 for 2021 and 1,843 for 2020.
- Comal County Sheriff's Office: 1,084 for 2025, 960 for 2024, 1,034 for 2023, 790 for 2022, 480 for 2021 and 2,433 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Bulverde: 111 for 2025, 187 for 2024, 171 for 2022, 175 for 2021, 85 for 2020 and 90 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Garden Ridge: 19 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 16 for 2022, 24 for 2021 and 19 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,412 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,412 in 2025 against 4,370 in 2024, up 1 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,195 arrests, against 2,919 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Comal County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Comal County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 500 people on an average day, up from about 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 583 beds, and it is running at 87 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 Comal County Sheriff's Office at comalcounty.gov/181/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Comal County, TX), phone 800-640-8422, 3005 W San Antonio Street New Braunfels, TX 78130, 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 Comal 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 Comal 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 Comal County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 800-640-8422.
- An arrest in New Braunfels, Bulverde or Garden Ridge: 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 Comal County Constable's Precincts 1, 2, 3 and 4: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at comalcounty.gov/244/Request-Information (page title: Request Information | Comal County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Comal County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Comal County: New Braunfels, Bulverde and Garden Ridge. Spring Branch 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 Comal County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Comal County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- New Braunfels (116,477)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Comal County each year?
New Braunfels reported 3,198 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,412 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Comal County?
Ask the Comal County Sheriff's Office at 800-640-8422; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at comalcounty.gov/181/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Comal County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Comal County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Comal 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 Comal County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Comal 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 comalcounty.gov/244/Request-Information.
Is this the official Comal 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.