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.
Stephens County, Texas, has about 9,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Stephens County Sheriff's Office, one city agency 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 Stephens 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: Stephens County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Stephens County
The Stephens County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Stephens County. It reported 31 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Stephens County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Breckenridge, 5,190 residents: 220 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 Stephens County: Stephens County Constable at Breckenridge (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Stephens 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.
- Breckenridge: 220 for 2025, 184 for 2024, 210 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 262 for 2021 and 255 for 2020.
- Stephens County Sheriff's Office: 31 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 19 for 2023, 34 for 2022, 66 for 2021 and 32 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 251 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 251 in 2025 against 209 in 2024, up 20 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 106 arrests, against 164 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Stephens County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Stephens 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 27 people on an average day, down from about 28 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 54 beds, and it is running at 50 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Stephens County Sheriff's Office at stephenssheriff-ok.gov/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Stephens County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Stephens County
Whether someone was arrested in Stephens County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Stephens County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Stephens 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.stephens.tx.us/page/stephens.district.attorney, phone 254-559-7333).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at co.stephens.tx.us/page/stephens.County.Court.Dockets (page title: County Court Dockets | Stephens County), belongs to a lower court, not to the Stephens 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 Stephens 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 Stephens County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Breckenridge: 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 Stephens County Constable at Breckenridge: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 254-559-7333, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Stephens 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.stephens.tx.us, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Stephens County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Breckenridge, the one city in Stephens County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Stephens County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Stephens County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Breckenridge (5,190)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Stephens County each year?
Breckenridge reported 220 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 251 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Stephens County?
Look on the custody page of the Stephens County Sheriff's Office at stephenssheriff-ok.gov/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Stephens County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stephens County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Stephens 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 Stephens County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Stephens 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 Stephens 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.