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.
Young County, Texas, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Young County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies 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 Young 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: Young County public records, Texas arrest records, Texas inmate search and Texas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Young County
The Young County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Young County. It reported 158 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Young County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Graham, 8,859 residents: 271 arrests reported for 2025.
- Olney, 3,029 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Young County: the Young County Constable's Precinct 3 (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Young 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.
- Graham: 271 for 2025, 295 for 2024, 410 for 2023, 475 for 2022, 407 for 2021 and 336 for 2020.
- Young County Sheriff's Office: 158 for 2025, 134 for 2024, 173 for 2023, 223 for 2022 and 179 for 2021.
- Olney: 55 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 72 for 2023, 70 for 2022, 61 for 2021 and 43 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 484 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 484 in 2025 against 476 in 2024, up 1.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 329 arrests, against 340 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Young County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Young 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 85 people on an average day, up from about 59 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 144 beds, and it is running at 59 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 Young County Sheriff's Office at co.young.tx.us/page/young.CountyJail (page title: Young County, Texas), 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 Young County
Whether someone was arrested in Young County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Young County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.young.tx.us/page/young.DistrictCourtDockets); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.young.tx.us/page/young.District.Attorney, phone 940-549-4132).
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 Young 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 Young County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Graham or Olney: 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 Young County Constable's Precinct 3: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 940-549-4132, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Young County District Court, through the court records page at co.young.tx.us.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Young County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Young County: Graham and Olney. Newcastle 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 Young County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Young County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Graham (8,859)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Young County each year?
Graham reported 271 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 484 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Young County?
Ask the Young County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.young.tx.us/page/young.CountyJail.
Where are people arrested in Young County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Young County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Young 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 Young County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Young 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 Young 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.