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 between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Falls County, Texas, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Falls County Sheriff's Office, three 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 Falls 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: Falls County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Falls County
The Falls County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Falls County. It reported 32 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Falls County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Marlin, 5,572 residents: 137 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rosebud, 1,341 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lott, 678 residents: 1,188 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 Falls County: the Marlin Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Falls 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.
- Lott: 1,188 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,187 for 2023, 1,176 for 2022, 1,168 for 2021 and 1,185 for 2020.
- Marlin: 137 for 2025, 93 for 2024, 197 for 2023, 146 for 2022, 95 for 2021 and 126 for 2020.
- Falls County Sheriff's Office: 32 for 2025, 13 for 2024, 19 for 2023 and 18 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Rosebud: 1 for 2025 and 2 for 2024.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,358 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,358 in 2025 against 1,296 in 2024, up 4.8 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 843 arrests, against 892 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Falls County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Falls 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 74 people on an average day, up from about 56 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 107 beds, and it is running at 69 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 Falls County Sheriff's Office at co.falls.tx.us/page/Sheriff (page title: County Sheriff | Falls County, Texas), phone 254-883-1431, 2847 State Highway 6 Marlin, TX 76661, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Falls County
For Falls County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.falls.tx.us/page/District.Attorney, phone 254-883-1416).
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 Falls County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Falls County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 254-883-1431.
- An arrest in Marlin, Rosebud or Lott: 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 Marlin Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 254-883-1416, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Falls County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Falls County: Marlin, Rosebud and Lott. Golinda 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 Falls County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Falls County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Marlin (5,572)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Falls County each year?
Lott reported 1,188 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,358 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Falls County?
Ask the Falls County Sheriff's Office at 254-883-1431; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.falls.tx.us/page/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Falls County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Falls County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Falls 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 Falls County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Falls 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 Falls 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.