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.
Nolan County, Texas, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Nolan County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one campus 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 Nolan 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: Nolan County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Nolan County
The Nolan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Nolan County. It reported 191 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Nolan County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Sweetwater, 10,196 residents: 121 arrests reported for 2025.
- Roscoe, 1,209 residents: 4 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 Nolan County: Texas State Technical College at Sweetwater (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Nolan 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.
- Nolan County Sheriff's Office: 191 for 2025, 387 for 2024, 287 for 2023, 60 for 2020 and 108 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Sweetwater: 121 for 2025, 144 for 2024, 176 for 2023, 137 for 2022, 310 for 2021 and 163 for 2020.
- Roscoe: 4 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 1 for 2022 and 1 for 2021.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 316 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 316 in 2025 against 531 in 2024, down 40 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 239 arrests, against 182 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Nolan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Nolan 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 72 people on an average day, down from about 86 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 96 beds, and it is running at 75 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 Nolan County Sheriff's Office at co.nolan.tx.us/page/nolan.Sheriff (page title: Nolan County, Texas), phone 325-235-5471, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Nolan County
For Nolan County the place to look is the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.nolan.tx.us/page/nolan.District.Attorney, phone 325-235-8639).
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 Nolan 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 Nolan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 325-235-5471.
- An arrest in Sweetwater or Roscoe: 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 Texas State Technical College at Sweetwater: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 325-235-8639, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Nolan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Nolan County: Sweetwater and Roscoe. Blackwell has 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 Nolan County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Nolan County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sweetwater (10,196)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Nolan County each year?
The Nolan County Sheriff's Office reported 191 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 316 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Nolan County?
Ask the Nolan County Sheriff's Office at 325-235-5471; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.nolan.tx.us/page/nolan.Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Nolan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Nolan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Nolan 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 Nolan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Nolan 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 Nolan 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.