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.
Hartley County, Texas, has about 5,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hartley County Sheriff's Office. 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 Hartley 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: Hartley County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hartley County
The Hartley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hartley County. It reported 3 arrests for 2025.
The Dalhart Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Hartley County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hartley County here.
How Many Arrests The Hartley County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Hartley County Sheriff's Office: 3 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 25 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 396 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Through July 2026, Hartley County Sheriff's Office reported 26 arrests, against 3 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hartley County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hartley 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.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 12 people, down from about 18 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 22 beds, and it ran at 54 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Hartley County Sheriff's Office at co.hartley.tx.us/page/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Office | Hartley County, Texas), phone (806) 235-3142, 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 Hartley County
Whether someone was arrested in Hartley County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Hartley 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.hartley.tx.us/page/District.Attorney, phone 806-935-5654).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.hartley.tx.us/page/Justice (page title: Justice of the Peace | Hartley County, Texas), phone 806.244.2939, belongs to a lower court, not to the Hartley 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 Hartley 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 Hartley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (806) 235-3142.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 806-935-5654, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Hartley 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.hartley.tx.us/page/Justice, phone 806.244.2939, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Hartley County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Hartley County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Hartley County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hartley County each year?
The Hartley County Sheriff's Office reported 3 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hartley County?
Ask the Hartley County Sheriff's Office at (806) 235-3142; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.hartley.tx.us/page/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Hartley County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hartley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hartley 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 Hartley County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hartley 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 Hartley 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.