This page will serve as the central place where I document everything happening behind the scenes — site improvements, new features, app development progress, bug fixes, data enhancements, and upcoming tools as the platform evolves.
Over the past few weeks, TexArrest has grown from a simple concept into a fully operating ecosystem that now includes:
- Daily updated arrest data
- Offense taxonomy with structured categories
- Featured mugshot system
- Texas Most Wanted profiles
- A companion app under active development for scraping, posting, and automation
County Coverage Progress
- ✅ Travis County is now fully integrated
- ✅ Collin County is completed and live
- 🔄 Williamson County is currently in development
For Williamson County, we now have the baseline for scraping and parsing their jailing system, and we’re actively testing reliability, accuracy, and data consistency.
Their jail management software is one that many other Texas counties also use, which means once we finalize and tune the scraper for Williamson County, we should be able to roll out additional counties and cities much faster statewide.
Known Issue: Offense Taxonomy Bug
There is currently a taxonomy labeling bug affecting offense classification between counties:
- Travis County formats its offense descriptions one way
- Collin County uses a different labeling style
Right now, the sanitizer only accounts for Travis County’s format, so some Collin County offenses are being tagged incorrectly or assigned to categories that don’t fully match the existing sanitizing rules.
I’m holding off on restructuring the sanitizer until after we finish the Williamson County scraper codebase, since the new system will likely require updating and standardizing taxonomy handling across all counties.
A full taxonomy cleanup and rule expansion will follow once WilCo is finalized.
What’s New
- 🚀 Launched the TexArrest Updates Page
- 🔎 Expanded Texas Most Wanted profiles
- 🧩 Improved offense taxonomy visual styling
- 📱 Progress on the backend TexArrest app and automated publishing pipeline
What’s Next
- 📸 Automated mugshot import & featured image assignment
- 🗂 Faster expansion into additional Texas counties using the Williamson template
- 📊 Site analytics dashboard for growth metrics
- ⚙️ Improved sanitization, duplicate detection, and error handling
- 🔔 Optional real-time update notifications for users
TexArrest is growing quickly, and this page will serve as the ongoing timeline of everything happening behind the scenes. More updates coming soon.