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.
Donley County, Texas, has about 3,200 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Donley County Sheriff's Office. 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 Donley 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: Donley County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Donley County
The Donley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Donley County. It reported 13 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Donley County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Donley County Sheriff's Office: 13 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 12 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 5 for 2021 and 13 for 2020.
Through August 2026, Donley County Sheriff's Office reported 9 arrests, against 7 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Donley County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Donley 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 4 people on an average day, down from about 8 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 20 beds, and it is running at 20 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 Donley County Sheriff's Office at co.donley.tx.us/page/donley.Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Donley County, Texas), phone (806) 874-3533, 300 Sully St Clarendon, TX 79226, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Donley 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 Donley 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 Donley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (806) 874-3533.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Donley County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Donley County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Donley County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Donley County each year?
The Donley County Sheriff's Office reported 13 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Donley County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Donley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Donley 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 Donley County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Donley 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 Donley 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.