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.
Nacogdoches County, Texas, has about 66,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and seven 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 Nacogdoches 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: Nacogdoches County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Nacogdoches County
The Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Nacogdoches County. It reported 1,114 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:
- Nacogdoches, 32,381 residents: 1,598 arrests reported for 2025.
- Garrison, 827 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Nacogdoches County: the University of Texas at Stephen F. Austin (campus police); the Nacogdoches County Constable's Precincts 4 and 1, the Nacogdoches Independent School District, the Garrison Independent School District, the Woden Independent School District and one more (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Nacogdoches 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.
- Nacogdoches: 1,598 for 2025, 1,415 for 2024, 1,599 for 2023, 1,626 for 2022, 1,782 for 2021 and 1,719 for 2020.
- Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office: 1,114 for 2025, 1,196 for 2024, 828 for 2023, 680 for 2022, 903 for 2021 and 854 for 2020.
- Garrison: 3 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 15 for 2021 and 18 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,712 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,712 in 2025 against 2,611 in 2024, up 3.9 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,794 arrests, against 1,782 in the same months of 2025.
Garrison reported only part of 2025 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Nacogdoches County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Nacogdoches 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 320 people on an average day, up from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 324 beds, and it is running at 100 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Nacogdoches County
For Nacogdoches County the place to look is the case index of the Nacogdoches 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 court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at texasstatecourts.us/nacogdoches (page title: Nacogdoches County Court Records Search), phone (936) 560-7740, belongs to a lower court, not to the Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Nacogdoches or Garrison: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the University of Texas at Stephen F. Austin, the Nacogdoches County Constable's Precincts 4 and 1 or the Nacogdoches Independent School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Nacogdoches 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 texasstatecourts.us/nacogdoches, phone (936) 560-7740, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Nacogdoches County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the five cities in Nacogdoches County: Nacogdoches and Garrison. Cushing, Appleby and Chireno 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 Nacogdoches County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Nacogdoches County each year?
Nacogdoches reported 1,598 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,712 between them.
Where are people arrested in Nacogdoches County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches 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.