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 October 4, 2026.
Hopkins County, Texas, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and six 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 Hopkins 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: Hopkins County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hopkins County
The Hopkins County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hopkins County. It reported 163 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Hopkins County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Sulphur Springs, 16,891 residents: 477 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cumby, 715 residents: 54 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Hopkins County: the Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District, the Hopkins County Constable's Precincts 1 and 2, the Cumby Independent School District, the Sulphur Bluff Independent School District and one more (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hopkins 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.
- Sulphur Springs: 477 for 2025, 269 for 2024, 323 for 2023, 250 for 2022, 339 for 2021 and 452 for 2020.
- Hopkins County Sheriff's Office: 163 for 2025, 224 for 2024, 266 for 2023, 290 for 2022, 324 for 2021 and 405 for 2020.
- Cumby: 54 for 2020 and 73 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 640 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 640 in 2025 against 493 in 2024, up 30 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 576 arrests, against 434 in the same months of 2025.
Cumby reported only part of 2025 (6 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hopkins County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hopkins 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 230 people on an average day, up from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 240 beds, and it is running at 98 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 Hopkins County Sheriff's Office at hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.Sheriff (page title: Hopkins County, Texas), phone (903) 438-4040, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Hopkins County
An arrest in Hopkins County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Hopkins County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at newtools.cira.state.tx.us/page/hopkins.Dockets.County); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.District.Attorney, phone (903) 885-0641).
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 Hopkins 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 Hopkins County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (903) 438-4040.
- An arrest in Sulphur Springs or Cumby: 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 Como-Pickton Consolidated Independent School District, the Hopkins County Constable's Precincts 1 and 2 or the Cumby Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (903) 885-0641, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hopkins County District Court, through the court records page at newtools.cira.state.tx.us.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Hopkins County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Hopkins County: Sulphur Springs and Cumby. Como and Tira 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 Hopkins County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hopkins County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sulphur Springs (16,891)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hopkins County each year?
Sulphur Springs reported 477 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 640 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hopkins County?
Ask the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office at (903) 438-4040; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Hopkins County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hopkins 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 Hopkins County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hopkins 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 Hopkins 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.