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.
Lampasas County, Texas, has about 24,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lampasas County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one other agency. 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 Lampasas 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: Lampasas County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lampasas County
The Lampasas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lampasas County. It reported 164 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Lampasas County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Lampasas, 7,936 residents: 570 arrests reported for 2024.
- Kempner, 1,283 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lometa, 801 residents: 0 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 Copperas Cove Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Lampasas County, so its arrests are not broken out for Lampasas County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Lampasas County: the Lampasas County Constable's Precinct 1 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Lampasas 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.
- Lampasas County Sheriff's Office: 164 for 2025, 146 for 2024, 86 for 2022, 111 for 2021, 108 for 2020 and 127 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Kempner: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 3 for 2022.
- Lometa: 0 for 2025 and 0 for 2024.
- Lampasas: 570 for 2024, 507 for 2023, 501 for 2022, 456 for 2021, 455 for 2020 and 592 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 165 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 165 in 2025 against 146 in 2024, up 13 percent.
Lampasas reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lampasas County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lampasas 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 72 people on an average day, up from about 28 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 112 beds, and it is running at 64 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 Lampasas County Sheriff's Office at co.lampasas.tx.us/page/lampasas.Sheriff (page title: Lampasas County, Texas), phone 512-556-8255, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Lampasas County
Whether someone was arrested in Lampasas County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lampasas County District Court, kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.lampasas.tx.us/page/lampasas.District.Attorney, phone 512-556-8282).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.lampasas.tx.us/page/lampasas.CountyCourtDockets (page title: Lampasas County, Texas), phone (512) 556-8271, belongs to a lower court, not to the Lampasas County District Court.
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 Lampasas 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 Lampasas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 512-556-8255.
- An arrest in Lampasas, Kempner or Lometa: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Lampasas County Constable's Precinct 1: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 512-556-8282, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Lampasas County District Court it is kept by the District Clerk for district court cases and the County Clerk for county court cases. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.lampasas.tx.us, phone (512) 556-8271, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Lampasas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Lampasas County: Lampasas, Kempner and Lometa.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Lampasas County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lampasas County each year?
The Lampasas County Sheriff's Office reported 164 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 165 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lampasas County?
Ask the Lampasas County Sheriff's Office at 512-556-8255; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.lampasas.tx.us/page/lampasas.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Lampasas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lampasas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lampasas 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 Lampasas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lampasas 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 Lampasas 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.