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 1, 2026.
San Saba County, Texas, has about 5,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the San Saba County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 San Saba 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: San Saba County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in San Saba County
The San Saba County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for San Saba County. It reported 16 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in San Saba County with a reporting agency of its own:
- San Saba, 2,866 residents: 34 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.
How Many Arrests San Saba Reports
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.
- San Saba: 34 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 48 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 4 for 2021 and 7 for 2020.
- San Saba County Sheriff's Office: 16 for 2020.
Through August 2026, San Saba reported 21 arrests, against 24 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in San Saba County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in San Saba 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.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 1 people, up from about 1 in 2018. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 12 beds, and it ran at 10 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the San Saba County Sheriff's Office at sansabacounty.org/jail (page title: San Saba County Jail Roster Lookup, TX, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 San Saba County
Whether someone was arrested in San Saba County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the San Saba 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.san-saba.tx.us/page/sansaba.District.Attorney, phone 325-247-5755).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.san-saba.tx.us/page/sansaba.Municipal.Court (page title: San Saba County, Texas), belongs to a lower court, not to the San Saba 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 San Saba 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 San Saba County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in San Saba: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 325-247-5755, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the San Saba 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.san-saba.tx.us, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in San Saba County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in San Saba County: San Saba. Richland Springs 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 San Saba County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in San Saba County each year?
San Saba reported 34 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in San Saba County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the San Saba County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in San Saba 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 San Saba County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the San Saba 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 San Saba 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.