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.
Kaufman County, Texas, has about 198,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and ten campus, state or 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 Kaufman 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: Kaufman County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kaufman County
The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kaufman County. It reported 766 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Kaufman County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Forney, 38,572 residents: 463 arrests reported for 2025.
- Terrell, 22,977 residents: 394 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kaufman, 9,785 residents: 692 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mabank, 7,021 residents: 116 arrests reported for 2025.
- Crandall, 5,950 residents: 446 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oak Ridge, 1,475 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kemp, 1,414 residents: 75 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 Seagoville Police Department, the Mesquite Police Department, the Heath Police Department and one more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Kaufman County, so their arrests are not broken out for Kaufman County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Kaufman County: the Kaufman County Constable's Precincts 1, 2 and 3, the Terrell Independent School District, the Kemp Independent School District, the Kaufman Independent School District and three more (other); Southwestern Christian College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kaufman 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.
- Kaufman County Sheriff's Office: 766 for 2025, 953 for 2024, 819 for 2023, 888 for 2022, 1,047 for 2021 and 981 for 2020.
- Kaufman: 692 for 2025, 660 for 2024, 649 for 2023, 383 for 2022, 394 for 2021 and 411 for 2020.
- Forney: 463 for 2025, 502 for 2024, 546 for 2023, 633 for 2022, 631 for 2021 and 758 for 2020.
- Crandall: 446 for 2025, 396 for 2024, 259 for 2023, 303 for 2022, 230 for 2021 and 174 for 2020.
- Terrell: 394 for 2025, 348 for 2024, 726 for 2023, 778 for 2022, 781 for 2021 and 697 for 2020.
- Mabank: 116 for 2025.
- Kemp: 75 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 32 for 2021 and 22 for 2020.
- Oak Ridge: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2023 and 4 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,953 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,836 in 2025 against 2,886 in 2024, down 1.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,082 arrests, against 1,913 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kaufman County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Kaufman 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 400 people on an average day, down from about 450 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 531 beds, and it is running at 74 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 Kaufman County Sheriff's Office at kaufmanso.com/jail-info/inmate-records (page title: Inmate Records | Kaufman CO. Sheriff), phone 972-932-4337, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Kaufman County
For Kaufman County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kaufmancounty.net/217/District-Attorney, phone (469) 376-4760).
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 Kaufman 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 Kaufman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 972-932-4337.
- An arrest in Forney, Terrell, Kaufman, Mabank, Crandall, Oak Ridge 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 Kaufman County Constable's Precincts 1, 2 and 3, the Terrell Independent School District or the Kemp 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, (469) 376-4760, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kaufmancounty.net (page title: Public Information Act | Open Records | Kaufman County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Kaufman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the 15 cities in Kaufman County: Forney, Terrell, Kaufman, Mabank, Crandall, Oak Ridge and Kemp. Talty, Combine, Post Oak Bend, Scurry, Oak Grove, Grays Prairie, Rosser and Cottonwood 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 Kaufman County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Kaufman County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Crandall (5,950)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kaufman County each year?
The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office reported 766 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the eight agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,953 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kaufman County?
Ask the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office at 972-932-4337; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kaufmanso.com/jail-info/inmate-records.
Where are people arrested in Kaufman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kaufman 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 Kaufman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kaufman 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kaufmancounty.net.
Is this the official Kaufman 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.