Travis County Arrest Records

The Travis County Sherriff ‘s office is the office in-charge of maintaining Travis County Arrest Records. All cases of arrests done in the county are filed in the said office before they are forwarded to the state level which is at the Texas Department of Public Safety.

According to Texas law, citizens are allowed to access public arrest documents as long as proper procedures are followed. This allows the government to equip its constituents with valuable details that can save them from becoming victims of the ploys of criminals. It is allowed to request your own records if you have any. It's also allowed to request for other people’s records but the amount of details you will get will be limited. You can get full access to a particular record if you are the victim of the crime committed by the offender, if you're the lawyer of either the victim or the offender, if you are the presiding judge, or as long as you have the consent of the court that has jurisdiction over the record.

Travis County has an official website where citizens can get data from about legal services such as Travis County Sherrif Arrest Information. The website is constantly updated and directly linked to that website that is maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

To initiate a search, you need to first determine if the record you are looking for actually exists. Visit the official website of the county or head to the Sheriff’s office and find out about the availability of a particular report. If the record exists, secure or download the correct request form and supply it with the details that it requires such as the name of the offender, birthdate of the offender, nature of offense committed, when and where the offense was committed, and the likes. Once you got that covered, submit it back to the Sheriff’s office along with your valid government-issued ID and the corresponding fee. Charges can be paid my money order or by using a certified a check and are non-refundable whatever the search results.

Althoug the files are available for public consumption, there are certain guidelines as to when they can be accessed or how they can be used. If it the report is of a crime that is currently under investigation, there is a chance that it may not be available for public access. If the offender was proven innocent of the crime charged against him or her, the document will be kept away from the public. It is also prohibited to use the crimes to defame, embarrass, harass, or blackmail another person. Violators of the aforementioned guidelines and others that are not mentioned will be penalized accordingly by the law.

Another avenue for obtaining arrest data is through online service providers that have the consent of the court to maintain and provide Travis County criminal conviction records such as criminal arrest data, police reports, Travis County Jail Records, and the likes. There are lots of service providers on the Internet but not all of them are reliable sources of information so make sure that you run a quick criminal history check on them before conducting your actual records search.