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.
Gregg County, Texas, has about 127,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gregg County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and five campus, state or 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 Gregg 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: Gregg County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gregg County
The Gregg County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gregg County. It reported 241 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Longview, 83,668 residents: 2,657 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kilgore, 13,583 residents: 612 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gladewater, 6,307 residents: 170 arrests reported for 2025.
- White Oak, 6,241 residents: 81 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lakeport, 992 residents: 1 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 these agencies in Gregg County: the Gregg County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 4 and 3 (other); Kilgore College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Gregg County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Longview: 2,657 for 2025, 2,393 for 2024, 2,301 for 2023, 2,387 for 2022, 2,201 for 2021 and 2,476 for 2020.
- Kilgore: 612 for 2025, 753 for 2024, 1,155 for 2023, 1,153 for 2022, 717 for 2021 and 777 for 2020.
- Gregg County Sheriff's Office: 241 for 2025, 284 for 2024, 342 for 2023, 428 for 2022 and 367 for 2021.
- Gladewater: 170 for 2025, 123 for 2024, 113 for 2023, 92 for 2022, 122 for 2021 and 172 for 2020.
- White Oak: 81 for 2025, 62 for 2023, 69 for 2021, 71 for 2020 and 197 for 2019; 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Lakeport: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,762 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,681 in 2025 against 3,553 in 2024, up 3.6 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,149 arrests, against 2,074 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gregg County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gregg 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 620 people on an average day, down from about 770 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 916 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 Gregg County Sheriff's Office at greggcountytxsheriff.org/divisions/jail-division (page title: Jail Division | Gregg County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Gregg County
An arrest in Gregg County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Gregg County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at greggcounty.texas.gov/departments/county-clerk, phone 903-236-8430); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at greggcounty.texas.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone 903-236-8440).
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 Gregg 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 Gregg County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Longview, Kilgore, Gladewater, White Oak or Lakeport: 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 Gregg County Constable's Precincts 2, 1, 4 and 3 or Kilgore College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 903-236-8440, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gregg County District Court, through the court records page at greggcounty.texas.gov, phone 903-236-8430.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Gregg County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the eight cities in Gregg County: Longview, Kilgore, Gladewater, White Oak and Lakeport. Clarksville City, Easton and Warren City 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 Gregg County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gregg County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Kilgore (13,583)
- Gladewater (6,307)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gregg County each year?
Longview reported 2,657 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,762 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gregg County?
Ask the Gregg County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at greggcountytxsheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Gregg County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gregg County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gregg 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 Gregg County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gregg 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 Gregg 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.