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.
Lamar County, Texas, has about 51,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and six 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 Lamar 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: Lamar County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lamar County
The Lamar County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lamar County. It reported 276 arrests for 2025.
One city in Lamar County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Paris, 25,037 residents: 608 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lamar County: the Chisum Independent School District, the Prairiland Independent School District, the Lamar County Constable's Precinct 2, the Paris Independent School District and one more (other); Paris Junior College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Lamar 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.
- Paris: 608 for 2025, 785 for 2024, 727 for 2023, 757 for 2022, 663 for 2021 and 668 for 2020.
- Lamar County Sheriff's Office: 276 for 2025, 187 for 2024, 122 for 2023, 135 for 2022, 464 for 2020 and 478 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Reno: 27 for 2025, 51 for 2024, 34 for 2023, 22 for 2022, 37 for 2021 and 55 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 911 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 911 in 2025 against 1,023 in 2024, down 11 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 621 arrests, against 637 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lamar County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lamar 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 150 people on an average day, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 196 beds, and it is running at 74 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 Lamar County
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 Lamar 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 Lamar County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Paris: 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 Chisum Independent School District, Paris Junior College or the Prairiland Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Lamar County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the six cities in Lamar County: Paris. Blossom, Roxton, Deport, Toco and Sun Valley have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Reno Police Department, Lamar County as a city agency in Lamar County; Reno is not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Lamar County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Lamar County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Paris (25,037)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lamar County each year?
Paris reported 608 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 911 between them.
Where are people arrested in Lamar County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lamar County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lamar 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 Lamar County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lamar 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 Lamar 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.