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.
Hood County, Texas, has about 69,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hood County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and four 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 Hood 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: Hood County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hood County
The Hood County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hood County. It reported 962 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Hood County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Granbury, 12,934 residents: 713 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tolar, 1,339 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 Hood County: the Lipan Marshal's Office, the Hood County Constable's Precincts 4 and 1 and the Hood County Fire Marshal's Office (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hood 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.
- Hood County Sheriff's Office: 962 for 2025, 1,028 for 2024, 1,010 for 2023, 936 for 2022, 852 for 2021 and 810 for 2020.
- Granbury: 713 for 2025, 780 for 2024, 682 for 2022, 675 for 2021, 542 for 2020 and 705 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Tolar: 1 for 2025 and 1 for 2024.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,676 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,676 in 2025 against 1,809 in 2024, down 7.4 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,028 arrests, against 1,149 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hood County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hood 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 170 people on an average day, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 192 beds, and it is running at 90 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 Hood County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov (page title: Hood County Sheriff, TX), 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 Hood County
An arrest in Hood County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Hood County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at hoodcounty.texas.gov/courts/county_clerk/court_records.php, phone (817) 579-3222); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hoodcounty.texas.gov/courts/county_attorney/index.php, phone 817-579-3216).
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 Hood 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 Hood County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Granbury or Tolar: 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 Lipan Marshal's Office, the Hood County Constable's Precincts 4 and 1 or the Hood County Fire Marshal's Office: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 817-579-3216, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hood County District Court, through the court records page at hoodcounty.texas.gov, phone (817) 579-3222.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Hood County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the six cities in Hood County: Granbury and Tolar. DeCordova, Cresson, Lipan and Stockton Bend 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 Hood County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hood County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Granbury (12,934)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hood County each year?
The Hood County Sheriff's Office reported 962 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,676 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hood County?
Ask the Hood County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov.
Where are people arrested in Hood County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hood County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hood 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 Hood County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hood 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 Hood 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.