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.
Parker County, Texas, has about 180,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Parker County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and five 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 Parker 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: Parker County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Parker County
The Parker County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Parker County. It reported 1,013 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Parker County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Weatherford, 39,397 residents: 1,052 arrests reported for 2025.
- Willow Park, 6,851 residents: 88 arrests reported for 2025.
- Springtown, 4,843 residents: 168 arrests reported for 2024.
- Hudson Oaks, 2,741 residents: 55 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 Azle Police Department, Reno Police Department, Parker County, the Mineral Wells Police Department and one more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Parker County, so their arrests are not broken out for Parker County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Parker County: the Parker County Constable's Precincts 1, 3, 2 and 4 (other); Weatherford College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Parker 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.
- Weatherford: 1,052 for 2025, 1,084 for 2024, 1,051 for 2023, 1,182 for 2022, 1,012 for 2021 and 1,227 for 2020.
- Parker County Sheriff's Office: 1,013 for 2025, 1,017 for 2024, 983 for 2023, 706 for 2022, 481 for 2021 and 516 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Willow Park: 88 for 2025, 201 for 2024, 225 for 2023, 183 for 2022, 168 for 2021 and 121 for 2020.
- Hudson Oaks: 55 for 2025, 36 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 30 for 2022, 54 for 2021 and 41 for 2020.
- Springtown: 168 for 2024, 57 for 2023 and 69 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,208 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,208 in 2025 against 2,338 in 2024, down 5.6 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,456 arrests, against 1,467 in the same months of 2025.
Springtown reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Parker County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Parker 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 420 people on an average day, down from about 590 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 483 beds, and it is running at 87 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 Parker County Sheriff's Office at parkercountytx.gov/138/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Parker County, TX), phone 817-594-8845, 129 Hogle St. Weatherford, TX 76086, Monday - Sunday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Parker County
Whether someone was arrested in Parker County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Parker County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at parkercountytx.gov/158/Courts); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at parkercountytx.gov/181/District-Attorney, phone 817-598-6124).
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 Parker County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Parker County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 817-594-8845.
- An arrest in Weatherford, Willow Park, Springtown or Hudson Oaks: 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 Parker County Constable's Precincts 1, 3, 2 and 4 or Weatherford College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 817-598-6124, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Parker County District Court, through the court records page at parkercountytx.gov/158/Courts.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at parkercountytx.gov/forms.aspx?FID=105 (page title: Forms, Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Parker County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the 14 cities in Parker County: Weatherford, Willow Park, Springtown and Hudson Oaks. Aledo, Reno, Annetta, Dennis, Annetta South, Peaster, Annetta North, Millsap, Sanctuary and Cool 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 Parker County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Parker County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Weatherford (39,397)
- Willow Park (6,851)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Parker County each year?
Weatherford reported 1,052 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,208 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Parker County?
Ask the Parker County Sheriff's Office at 817-594-8845; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at parkercountytx.gov/138/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Parker County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Parker County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Parker 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 Parker County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Parker 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at parkercountytx.gov/forms.aspx?FID=105.
Is this the official Parker 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.