As development continues on the TexArrest backend infrastructure, I’ve been building and testing the next major county data source: Williamson County. While analyzing the structure of their jailing system and preparing the ingestion schema, I noticed something interesting in the footer:

“Tyler Technologies.”

That small detail turned into a major breakthrough.

🔍 A WilCo Dataset Discovery That Changes Everything

While creating the Williamson County dataset (technically, the data ingestion pipeline + schema mapping layer), I discovered their jail system runs on Tyler Technologies, a software provider used across a huge portion of Texas.

Out of curiosity, I Googled the exact footer text.
What I found next was important:

Many Texas counties use this exact same Tyler Technologies portal for jail and court records.

This means once TexArrest finalizes the scraper + parser for Williamson County, expanding to additional counties becomes significantly faster and more efficient.

🗂️ Texas Counties Using Tyler Technologies Jail / Court Systems

Below are the confirmed counties using Tyler-based public access systems:

• Hays County – Courts/Jail Records
• Taylor County – Jail/Court Public Access
• Wise County – Jail Records
• Anderson County – Courts & Public Access
• Galveston County – Public Access Portal
• Bastrop County – Records Search
• Williamson County – Inmate Lookup (Currently in development)
• Hidalgo County – Courts/Jail Records
• Fort Bend County – “Odyssey Public Access” (Tyler Paw)
• Collin County – Public Access (TexArrest currently integrated)
• Webb County – Jail Records Portal

This is a massive opportunity for rapid expansion.

📸 TexArrest’s New Direction: Counties With Mugshots Come First

One major shift going forward is TexArrest’s focus on counties that display inmate mugshots in their roster.

If a county shows:
✔️ an inmate’s photo
✔️ charges / offense list
✔️ arrest date
✔️ booking date

Then TexArrest will attempt to scrape it.

Collin County is the first live example of this — full mugshot integration with offense history pulled in real time.

Future Data Possibilities

Depending on county availability, TexArrest may also begin scraping:

• Bond amounts
• Release dates
• Case numbers
• Magistrate notes
• Booking history

This transforms TexArrest into something larger:

🛰️ A Unified Source to Check if Someone Is Currently Locked Up in Texas

Instead of browsing county-by-county jail websites (each with different layouts, search systems, and filters), TexArrest aims to provide one centralized place to check who’s in jail — with photos, charges, arrest details, and more.

If the data exists publicly and includes a picture, TexArrest will try to scrape it.

As more Tyler-based counties come online, this vision becomes even more realistic.

💡 Why This Discovery Accelerates Development

Because Tyler Technologies powers so many county systems, TexArrest can reuse:

• The same HTML parsing logic
• The same pagination and request patterns
• The same detail page crawlers
• Very similar data sanitization rules

This drastically reduces engineering time per county.

🔧 Current Status

• Travis County ✔️
• Collin County ✔️ (mugshots + roster fully integrated)
• Williamson County 🔄 (baseline scrapers complete; parsing in testing)
• Taxonomy expansion coming after WilCo stabilization
• Tyler-based counties now pre-mapped for rapid rollout

🚀 What’s Next for TexArrest

• Finalize WilCo ingestion
• Begin expansion into all Tyler-based counties
• Improve offense sanitizing for cross-county consistency
• Add support for bond/release data where available
• Build unified search tools so users can check multiple counties at once
• Move toward the goal of Texas-wide arrest visibility in one place

TexArrest is entering a major growth phase, and this discovery accelerates the statewide expansion dramatically.

More updates coming soon.