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 1, 2026.
Johnson County, Texas, has about 211,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and seven 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 Johnson 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: Johnson County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Johnson County
The Johnson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Johnson County. It reported 777 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Johnson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Burleson, 56,253 residents: 1,555 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cleburne, 38,131 residents: 1,042 arrests reported for 2025.
- Joshua, 9,146 residents: 63 arrests reported for 2025.
- Venus, 8,209 residents: 88 arrests reported for 2025.
- Alvarado, 7,312 residents: 358 arrests reported for 2025.
- Keene, 6,930 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2025.
- Godley, 4,402 residents: 38 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 Crowley Police Department and the Mansfield Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Johnson County, so their arrests are not broken out for Johnson County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Johnson County: the Johnson County Constable's Precincts 1, 4, 3 and 2, the Keene Independent School District, the Joshua Independent School District and the Vensus Independent School District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Johnson 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.
- Burleson: 1,555 for 2025, 1,479 for 2024, 1,286 for 2023, 1,246 for 2022, 898 for 2021 and 878 for 2020.
- Cleburne: 1,042 for 2025, 979 for 2024, 884 for 2023, 889 for 2021, 650 for 2020 and 647 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Johnson County Sheriff's Office: 777 for 2025, 458 for 2024, 411 for 2023, 344 for 2022, 407 for 2021 and 281 for 2020.
- Alvarado: 358 for 2025, 251 for 2022, 191 for 2021, 238 for 2020 and 484 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Venus: 88 for 2025, 102 for 2024, 125 for 2023, 106 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 35 for 2020.
- Joshua: 63 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 74 for 2023, 103 for 2022 and 65 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Godley: 38 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 23 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 30 for 2021 and 43 for 2020.
- Keene: 14 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 6 for 2021 and 5 for 2020.
Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,935 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,800 in 2025 against 2,704 in 2024, up 3.6 percent.
Through August 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,867 arrests, against 2,038 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Johnson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Johnson 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 860 people on an average day, up from about 800 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,100 beds, and it is running at 78 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office at jcportal.johnsoncountytx.org/jail (page title: Inmate Listing), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Johnson County
Whether someone was arrested in Johnson County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Johnson County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at johnsoncountytx.org/government/county-clerk/online-records); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at johnsoncountytx.org/government/district-attorney, phone (817) 556-6802).
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 Johnson 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 Johnson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Burleson, Cleburne, Joshua, Venus, Alvarado, Keene or another of the cities listed above: 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 Johnson County Constable's Precincts 1, 4, 3 and 2, the Keene Independent School District or the Joshua 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, (817) 556-6802, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Johnson County District Court, through the court records page at johnsoncountytx.org.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Johnson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the 12 cities in Johnson County: Burleson, Cleburne, Joshua, Venus, Alvarado, Keene and Godley. Grandview, Rio Vista, Briaroaks, Cross Timber and Coyote Flats 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 Johnson County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Johnson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Johnson County each year?
Burleson reported 1,555 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the eight agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,935 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Johnson County?
Look on the custody page of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office at jcportal.johnsoncountytx.org/jail. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Johnson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Johnson 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 Johnson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Johnson 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 Johnson 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.