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.
Trinity County, Texas, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Trinity County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and two 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 Trinity 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: Trinity County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Trinity County
The Trinity County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Trinity County. It reported 197 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Trinity County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Trinity, 2,474 residents: 27 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 these agencies in Trinity County: the Trinity Independent School District and the Trinity County Constable's Precinct 1 (other).
How Many Arrests The Trinity County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Trinity County Sheriff's Office: 197 for 2024, 302 for 2023, 312 for 2022, 274 for 2021 and 1,154 for 2020.
- Trinity: 27 for 2025.
The Trinity County Sheriff's Office's 302 arrests in 2023 were down 3.2 percent from 312 in 2022.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Trinity County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Trinity 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 5 people on an average day, down from about 7 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 7 beds, and it is running at 71 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 Trinity County Sheriff's Office at co.trinity.tx.us/page/trinity.Sheriff.Jail (page title: Trinity County, Texas), 162 West 1st St Groveton, TX 75845, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Trinity County
Whether someone was arrested in Trinity County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Trinity County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.trinity.tx.us/page/trinity.courtinformationall, phone 936.642.1746); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.trinity.tx.us/page/trinity.district.attorney, phone 936-642-2401).
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 Trinity 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 Trinity County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Trinity: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Trinity Independent School District or the Trinity County Constable's Precinct 1: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 936-642-2401, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Trinity County District Court, through the court records page at co.trinity.tx.us, phone 936.642.1746.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.trinity.tx.us (page title: Public Information Request Form | Trinity County).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Trinity County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Trinity County: Trinity. Groveton 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 Trinity County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Trinity County each year?
The Trinity County Sheriff's Office reported 197 arrests to the FBI for 2024.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Trinity County?
Ask the Trinity County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.trinity.tx.us/page/trinity.Sheriff.Jail.
Where are people arrested in Trinity County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Trinity County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Trinity 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 Trinity County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Trinity 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 co.trinity.tx.us.
Is this the official Trinity 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.