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.
Freestone County, Texas, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Freestone County Sheriff's Office and three city 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 Freestone 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: Freestone County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Freestone County
The Freestone County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Freestone County. It reported 125 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Freestone County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Teague, 3,569 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fairfield, 3,005 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wortham, 1,034 residents: 154 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 Oakwood Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Freestone County, so its arrests are not broken out for Freestone County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Freestone 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.
- Wortham: 154 for 2025, 40 for 2024, 8 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 49 for 2020.
- Freestone County Sheriff's Office: 125 for 2025, 258 for 2024, 252 for 2023, 219 for 2022, 217 for 2021 and 204 for 2020.
- Teague: 40 for 2025, 48 for 2024, 57 for 2023, 45 for 2022, 29 for 2021 and 35 for 2020.
- Fairfield: 5 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 10 for 2023, 12 for 2022, 72 for 2020 and 63 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 324 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 324 in 2025 against 378 in 2024, down 14 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 87 arrests, against 124 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Freestone County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Freestone 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 30 people on an average day, up from about 11 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 44 beds, and it is running at 68 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 Freestone County Sheriff's Office at co.freestone.tx.us/page/freestone.sheriff (page title: Freestone County, Texas), phone 903-389-3236, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Freestone County
An arrest in Freestone County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Freestone County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.freestone.tx.us/page/freestone.district.attorney, phone 903-389-3977).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.freestone.tx.us/page/freestone.dockets (page title: County Court Dockets | Freestone County), belongs to a lower court, not to the Freestone County District Court.
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 Freestone 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 Freestone County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 903-389-3236.
- An arrest in Teague, Fairfield or Wortham: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 903-389-3977, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Freestone County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.freestone.tx.us/page/freestone.dockets, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Freestone County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Freestone County: Teague, Fairfield and Wortham. Streetman and Kirvin 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 Freestone County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Freestone County each year?
Wortham reported 154 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 324 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Freestone County?
Ask the Freestone County Sheriff's Office at 903-389-3236; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.freestone.tx.us/page/freestone.sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Freestone County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Freestone County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Freestone 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 Freestone County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Freestone 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 Freestone 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.