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 on September 23, 2026.
Hutchinson County, Texas, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Hutchinson 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: Hutchinson County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hutchinson County
The Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hutchinson County. It reported 54 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists two cities in Hutchinson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Borger, 11,892 residents: 200 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stinnett, 1,599 residents: 28 arrests reported for 2021.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hutchinson 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.
- Borger: 200 for 2025, 269 for 2024, 301 for 2023, 334 for 2022, 319 for 2021 and 254 for 2020.
- Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office: 54 for 2023, 112 for 2022, 110 for 2021, 440 for 2020 and 675 for 2019.
- Stinnett: 28 for 2021.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 355 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 355 in 2023 against 446 in 2022, down 20 percent.
Stinnett reported only part of 2023 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hutchinson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hutchinson 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 37 people on an average day, down from about 50 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 70 beds, and it is running at 53 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Hutchinson County
For Hutchinson County the place to look is the case index of the Hutchinson County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.hutchinson.tx.us/government/district-clerk, phone 806-878-4017).
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 Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Borger or Stinnett: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hutchinson County District Court, through the court records page at co.hutchinson.tx.us/government/district-clerk, phone 806-878-4017.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Hutchinson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Hutchinson County: Borger and Stinnett. Fritch and Sanford 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 Hutchinson County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hutchinson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Borger (11,892)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hutchinson County each year?
Borger reported 200 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Hutchinson County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 355 between them.
Where are people arrested in Hutchinson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hutchinson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson 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.