SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Fort Bend County, Texas, has about 958,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, nine city agencies and eight 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 Fort Bend 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: Fort Bend County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Fort Bend County

The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Fort Bend County. It reported 1,965 arrests for 2025.

The FBI lists nine cities in Fort Bend County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:

  • Sugar Land, 109,851 residents: 901 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Missouri City, 78,582 residents: 1,013 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Fulshear, 54,629 residents: 88 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Rosenberg, 42,571 residents: 1,431 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Stafford, 17,555 residents: 243 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Richmond, 13,305 residents: 229 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Meadows Place, 4,630 residents: 42 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Needville, 3,139 residents: 21 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Arcola, 2,453 residents: 15 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 Katy Police Department, the Pearland Police Department and the Houston Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Fort Bend County, so their arrests are not broken out for Fort Bend County here.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Fort Bend County: the Needville Independent School District, the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, the Fort Bend County Constable's Precincts 4, 2, 1 and 3, the Fort Bend Independent School District and one more (other).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Fort Bend 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.

  • Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office: 1,965 for 2025, 2,005 for 2024, 2,072 for 2023, 1,697 for 2022, 1,483 for 2021 and 1,672 for 2020.
  • Rosenberg: 1,431 for 2025, 1,475 for 2024, 1,303 for 2023, 1,570 for 2022, 1,456 for 2021 and 1,363 for 2020.
  • Missouri City: 1,013 for 2025, 1,118 for 2024, 882 for 2023, 803 for 2022, 743 for 2021 and 542 for 2020.
  • Sugar Land: 901 for 2025, 1,120 for 2024, 1,454 for 2023, 1,085 for 2022, 1,122 for 2021 and 820 for 2020.
  • Richmond: 229 for 2025, 385 for 2024, 224 for 2023, 308 for 2022, 212 for 2021 and 238 for 2020.
  • Fulshear: 88 for 2025, 102 for 2024, 98 for 2023, 82 for 2022, 69 for 2021 and 91 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Meadows Place: 42 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 56 for 2023, 58 for 2022, 75 for 2021 and 76 for 2020.
  • Needville: 21 for 2025, 12 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 13 for 2020.
  • Arcola: 15 for 2025, 12 for 2024, 42 for 2023, 12 for 2022, 22 for 2021 and 3 for 2020.
  • Stafford: 243 for 2024, 416 for 2023, 440 for 2022, 457 for 2021, 359 for 2020 and 442 for 2019.

Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,705 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,705 in 2025 against 6,261 in 2024, down 8.9 percent.

Through August 2026, the eight agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,240 arrests, against 3,679 in the same months of 2025.

Stafford reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Fort Bend County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Fort Bend 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 890 people on an average day, up from about 840 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,770 beds, and it is running at 50 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/sheriff-s-office/bureau... (page title: Detention Booking and Release | Fort Bend County), phone 281-341-4665, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.

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 Fort Bend County

Whether someone was arrested in Fort Bend County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Fort Bend County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/fort-bend-county-distri..., phone 281-342-3411); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/district-attorney, phone 281-342-3411).

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 Fort Bend 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 Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 281-341-4665.
  • An arrest in Sugar Land, Missouri City, Fulshear, Rosenberg, Stafford, Richmond or another of the cities listed above: 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 Needville Independent School District, the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District or the Fort Bend County Constable's Precincts 4, 2, 1 and 3: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 281-342-3411, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Fort Bend County District Court, through the court records page at fortbendcountytx.gov, phone 281-342-3411.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fortbendcountytx.gov (page title: Public Information Request | Fort Bend County).
  • Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.

Cities in Fort Bend County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 17 cities in Fort Bend County: Sugar Land, Missouri City, Fulshear, Rosenberg, Stafford, Richmond, Meadows Place, Needville and Arcola. Weston Lakes, Pleak, Fairchilds, Beasley, Simonton, Kendleton, Orchard and Thompsons have 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 Fort Bend County District Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Fort Bend County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Fort Bend County each year?

The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office reported 1,965 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,705 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fort Bend County?

Look on the custody page of the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office at fortbendcountytx.gov, or call 281-341-4665. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Fort Bend County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Fort Bend 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 Fort Bend County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Fort Bend 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 fortbendcountytx.gov.

Is this the official Fort Bend 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.