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 4, 2026.
Lee County, Texas, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lee County Sheriff's Office, two 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 Lee 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: Lee County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lee County
The Lee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lee County. It reported 150 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Giddings, 5,324 residents: 253 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lexington, 1,319 residents: 14 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 one more agency in Lee County: the Lee County Constable's Precinct 4 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Lee 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.
- Giddings: 253 for 2025, 209 for 2024, 150 for 2023, 132 for 2022, 109 for 2021 and 150 for 2020.
- Lee County Sheriff's Office: 150 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 126 for 2023, 118 for 2022, 74 for 2021 and 381 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Lexington: 14 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 17 for 2023 and 2 for 2022.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 417 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 417 in 2025 against 343 in 2024, up 22 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 238 arrests, against 276 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lee 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 61 people on an average day, up from about 47 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 107 beds, and it is running at 57 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 Lee County Sheriff's Office at co.lee.tx.us/page/lee.Sheriff (page title: Lee County, Texas), phone 979-542-2800, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Lee County
Whether someone was arrested in Lee County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lee County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.lee.tx.us/page/lee.District.Clerk, phone 979-542-2947); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.lee.tx.us/page/lee.District.Attorney, phone 979-542-3233).
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 Lee 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 Lee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 979-542-2800.
- An arrest in Giddings or Lexington: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Lee County Constable's Precinct 4: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 979-542-3233, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lee County District Court, through the court records page at co.lee.tx.us/page/lee.District.Clerk, phone 979-542-2947.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Lee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Lee County: Giddings and Lexington.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Lee County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lee County each year?
Giddings reported 253 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 417 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lee County?
Ask the Lee County Sheriff's Office at 979-542-2800; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.lee.tx.us/page/lee.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Lee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lee 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 Lee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lee 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 Lee 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.