TexArrest

  • 📢 TexArrest Update #10 — Tarrant County Live, Charge Explainer Beta, and App Store Greenlight

    Posted: January 2026

    TexArrest just cleared several major milestones at once. County coverage continues to expand, the content strategy is evolving in a deliberate way, and mobile development now has a clear runway.

    🚔 Tarrant County — Now Supported

    Tarrant County has been successfully onboarded and is now live on TexArrest.

    This is an important step because Tarrant operates on a different jail/public records system than several previously supported counties. With Tarrant now supported, TexArrest is compatible with multiple system implementations — not a single platform.

    Tarrant County booking records and associated images (when publicly available) are now being added alongside existing counties, expanding coverage across North Texas.

    🧠 Charge Explainer (Beta) — Now Live

    TexArrest has launched a Charge Explainer (Beta) feature.

    What this does:

    • Provides brief, plain-language explanations for common charges
    • Helps visitors understand what a charge generally means
    • Adds contextual content directly on record pages

    Important shift:

    We are pausing active offense taxonomy normalization and allowing the charge list to grow naturally across counties.

    Why?

    • Different jurisdictions often label the same charge differently
    • Over-normalizing too early creates friction and delays
    • A broader, raw charge list can improve SEO coverage
    • Long-tail wording variations increase discoverability in search

    Instead of fighting charge variance, TexArrest is now leveraging it to expand content depth and search surface area.

    More charge explanations will be added continuously as the library grows.

    📱 Apple Developer Account — Approved

    TexArrest has been approved for an Apple Developer account.

    This clears a major requirement for iOS development and App Store distribution.

    What this means:

    • iOS development can move forward under the approved account
    • App Store distribution is now a viable path
    • Android development continues in parallel
    • Backend stability and compliance are now the primary gating factors

    No launch date yet — but the pipeline is officially open.

    🧩 Strategy Adjustment — Let It Grow

    With multiple counties now supported and updating regularly, TexArrest is shifting from tight early control into controlled expansion:

    • More counties
    • More charges
    • More records
    • More explanations
    • More search surface area

    Cleanup and refinement will continue — but priority is on building scale and coverage first.

    🚀 What’s Next

    • Expand Charge Explainer coverage
    • Continue onboarding counties
    • Monitor Tarrant County pipeline stability
    • Advance iOS and Android app builds
    • Keep public arrest/booking data free, searchable, and accessible

    TexArrest continues to move fast, learn fast, and scale deliberately.

    More updates coming soon.

  • 📢 TexArrest Update #9 — Expansion, Automation, and Policy Reset for 2026

    Posted: January 1, 2026

    Happy New Year from TexArrest. As 2026 begins, the platform is operating at full momentum — aggregating publicly available booking information, publishing arrest records, and expanding automated compatibility across Texas law enforcement and jail management systems.

    📸 28-Day Dataset & Analytics Milestone

    Since TexArrest was submitted for Google indexing in December 2025, growth has exceeded expectations:

    • 10,000+ publicly available booking photos indexed and published
    • 15,200+ search impressions
    • 4,430+ organic search clicks
    • Consistent daily publication cycles
    • Average Google search position: 4.1

    These metrics confirm strong demand for centralized access to Texas arrest and booking data, with continued upward momentum as coverage expands.

    🤖 APD, Williamson County, and Collin County — Live & Updating Regularly

    TexArrest currently maintains active, automated data ingestion pipelines for multiple Texas jurisdictions, including:

    Austin Police Department (APD)

    • Public booking information indexed as it becomes available
    • Booking photos published when released by APD

    Williamson County (WilCo)

    • Fully automated ingestion pipeline
    • No manual intervention required
    • Records published on a near-daily basis

    Collin County

    • Daily arrest and booking records indexed
    • Booking photos processed when publicly released

    TexArrest continues to publish public booking records quickly and consistently while keeping the platform free and accessible.

    📂 “No Mugshot Available” Records Supported

    TexArrest now includes arrest records that contain full booking details but do not have an associated booking photo.

    No Mugshot Available

    In some cases, booking photos are delayed or temporarily unavailable. TexArrest monitors these records and updates them automatically if an image becomes publicly available later.

    This improves accuracy and reduces false “no image” cases across the dataset.

    🧠 County-Specific Processing Strategy

    Not all counties provide a single browsable inmate roster or chronological arrest feed. To account for this, TexArrest uses county-specific processing pipelines tailored to how each agency publishes its public records.

    Each county operates independently within the platform:

    • Isolated processing per jurisdiction
    • No cross-county dependency or blocking
    • Custom handling for formatting, titles, and classification

    This architecture improves reliability and allows faster expansion as new counties are added.

    ⚙️ Active County Pipelines

    • Travis County / APD
    • Williamson County
    • Milam County
    • Collin County

    Additional counties are being onboarded on a rolling basis.

    ⚖️ Removal Requests — Final Policy Statement

    TexArrest has received removal requests that are not accompanied by legally mandated court orders.

    TexArrest publishes public booking events — not case outcomes.

    • We do not remove records without a valid court order
    • We do not alter public booking data
    • We do not offer pay-to-remove services

    Records are removed or modified only when legally required by expunction, sealing orders, or other binding court directives.

    All other requests will be declined.

    🚔 Tarrant County — Next System Under Review

    Tarrant County is currently under technical review to expand TexArrest’s compatibility with additional jail and court record platforms beyond Tyler-based systems.

    This ensures long-term statewide coverage across multiple system types.

    🚀 What’s Next

    • Daily public-record ingestion for supported counties
    • Rapid rollout of compatible county platforms
    • Continued offense taxonomy normalization
    • Further automation refinements
    • Expanded coverage across Texas counties and cities