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.
Kendall County, Texas, has about 52,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kendall County Sheriff's Office, one city agency 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 Kendall 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: Kendall County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kendall County
The Kendall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kendall County. It reported 377 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Kendall County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Boerne, 22,712 residents: 528 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Kendall County, so its arrests are not broken out for Kendall County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Kendall County: the Kendall County Constable's Precincts 4, 3, 2 and 1 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kendall County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Boerne: 528 for 2023, 590 for 2022, 531 for 2021, 475 for 2020 and 632 for 2019.
- Kendall County Sheriff's Office: 377 for 2024, 267 for 2023, 295 for 2022, 319 for 2021, 387 for 2020 and 456 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 795 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 795 in 2023 against 885 in 2022, down 10 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kendall County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kendall 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 79 people on an average day, down from about 82 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 153 beds, and it is running at 52 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 Kendall County
An arrest in Kendall County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Kendall County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kendallcountytx.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=59); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.kendall.tx.us/191/Criminal-District-Attorney, phone 830-249-9343).
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 Kendall 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 Kendall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Boerne: 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 Kendall County Constable's Precincts 4, 3, 2 and 1: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 830-249-9343, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kendall County District Court, through the court records page at kendallcountytx.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=59.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kendallcountytx.gov (page title: Public Information Requests | Kendall County, TX).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Kendall County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Boerne, the one city in Kendall County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Kendall County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Kendall County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Boerne (22,712)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kendall County each year?
Boerne reported 528 arrests to the FBI for 2023, and the two agencies with every month of 2023 on file reported 795 between them.
Where are people arrested in Kendall County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kendall County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kendall 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 Kendall County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kendall 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 kendallcountytx.gov.
Is this the official Kendall 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.