Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Duval County, Texas, has about 9,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Texas the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases; the statewide criminal history kept by the Texas Department of Public Safety is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Duval County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Duval County public records, Duval County arrest records, Duval County warrants, Duval County inmate search, Duval County court records, Texas arrest records and Texas inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Duval County District Court
In Texas the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Duval County are heard by the Duval County District Court, which hears felonies, divorces, land title cases and civil cases without a dollar limit; the County Courts and Justice Courts take misdemeanors in the County Court or County Court at Law; traffic tickets, evictions and small claims in the Justice Courts, and the file of each case is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases.
For Duval County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at co.duval.tx.us/page/duval.DistrictCourtDockets (page title: Duval County, Texas), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Texas has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Texas Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Texas Department of Public Safety site.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at securesite.dps.texas.gov/dpswebsite/criminalhistory.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Duval County
The Duval County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for San Diego, Freer and Benavides keep the arrest records in Duval County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Duval County: the Duval County Constable's Precinct 1 (other agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the two agencies in Duval County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,362 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Duval County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Duval County in 2023
The two agencies in Duval County with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 56 violent and 108 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 164 crimes in 2023 against 144 in 2022. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Duval County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Duval County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Duval County become charges and files them in the Duval County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at co.duval.tx.us/page/duval.District.Attorney (page title: Duval County, Texas), phone (361) 279-6220, Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Duval County
Registered sex offenders living in Duval County are listed on the Texas Public Sex Offender Registry, run by the Texas Department of Public Safety at dps.texas.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Duval County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Texas Public Information Act a county office must answer a request within 10 business days, and it may charge the copy rates set by the Attorney General, plus labor for large requests.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Duval County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Duval County and Texas. These criminal records pages from its Duval County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Texas DPS, Crime Records (dps.texas.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Duval 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.
Can I search Duval County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at co.duval.tx.us (page title: Duval County, Texas).
How do I get my own Texas criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Who prosecutes crimes in Duval County?
The District Attorney, reached at (361) 279-6220, which files its cases in the Duval County District Court or the County Courts and Justice Courts.
Is this the official Duval 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.