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.
Dallam County, Texas, has about 7,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dallam County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Dallam 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: Dallam County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dallam County
The Dallam County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dallam County. It reported 1 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Dallam County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Dalhart, 8,443 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2024.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dallam 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.
- Dalhart: 46 for 2024, 160 for 2023, 109 for 2022, 171 for 2021, 129 for 2020 and 281 for 2019.
- Dallam County Sheriff's Office: 1 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 23 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 48 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 48 in 2024 against 161 in 2023, down 70 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dallam County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dallam 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 20 people on an average day, down from about 22 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 51 beds, and it is running at 39 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 Dallam County Sheriff's Office at dallam.org/county/sheriff.shtml (page title: County Sheriff), phone (806) 244-2313, 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 Dallam 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 Dallam 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 Dallam County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (806) 244-2313.
- An arrest in Dalhart: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The other Dallam County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, police reports and property records.
Cities in Dallam County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Dallam County: Dalhart. Texline 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 Dallam County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dallam County each year?
Dalhart reported 46 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 48 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dallam County?
Ask the Dallam County Sheriff's Office at (806) 244-2313; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at dallam.org/county/sheriff.shtml.
Where are people arrested in Dallam County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dallam County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dallam 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 Dallam County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dallam 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 Dallam 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.