Posted: Christmas Day 2025

With eight updates officially logged, TexArrest is now operating in a hybrid state of daily public-record ingestion and active full-stack platform development.

Automated pipelines for Travis County, Collin County, and Milam County are now running reliably, indexing and publishing newly available arrest records and booking information on a near-daily basis. This confirms the platform is stable enough for continuous operation while additional county systems are evaluated and onboarded.

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📅 Daily Record Ingestion Is Now Live

TexArrest has transitioned from batch testing into ongoing daily ingestion cycles for counties where arrest and booking data is made publicly available.

• Detecting newly published arrest records
• Indexing booking data efficiently
• Applying improved offense classification filters
• Publishing booking photos when released by agencies

This shift marks a move toward continuous operation rather than periodic data pulls.

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🤖 Scaling County-Specific Automation

Earlier development revealed that combining multiple counties into a single processing pipeline created unnecessary dependencies during maintenance and testing.

To address this, TexArrest adopted a more resilient architecture:

Each county now operates within its own independent processing pipeline.

This approach allows:

• Parallel processing across counties
• Isolated updates and maintenance
• Faster onboarding of new jurisdictions
• Stability without cross-county disruption

Live County Pipelines

• Austin / Travis County
• Williamson County
• Milam County
• Collin County

Each pipeline operates independently as part of TexArrest’s internal automation framework.

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🔤 Improved Record Discovery & Recovery

Williamson County processing has received additional enhancements to improve discovery coverage and data completeness.

• Improved detection of newly published records
• Automated reprocessing of incomplete entries
• Expanded logic for identifying delayed booking photos
• Automatic recovery of previously unavailable images

These improvements help reduce gaps and ensure higher accuracy across the dataset.

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🧩 Offense Classification Normalization

Standardizing offense categories across counties continues to be one of the more complex engineering challenges.

Different jurisdictions often describe the same offense using varying terminology, formatting, or metadata combinations.

• Expanded normalization rules are being developed
• Mixed agency-offense strings are being filtered
• Equivalent statutes are being grouped consistently
• Original charge text is preserved for accuracy

A larger cleanup pass is planned once additional county pipelines stabilize.

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📈 Dataset Momentum & Search Growth

In the first 10 days following Google indexing, TexArrest recorded:

• 1,000+ organic clicks
• 3,000+ impressions
• Average search position: 4.1

• 2,500 users in the last 28 days
• 300+ active users per day
• Growth continuing as records are added daily

For a recently launched platform, this level of early traction confirms strong demand for centralized access to public Texas arrest data.

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🚀 What’s Next

• Continue daily record ingestion
• Expand county-level automation
• Complete onboarding for additional non-Tyler systems
• Further refine offense normalization
• Accelerate rollout of compatible county platforms

TexArrest is now positioned to scale efficiently while keeping public information free, accessible, and transparent.

More updates coming soon.

This update marks another major step forward for TexArrest. Multiple county integrations are now operating in parallel, with stable publishing workflows and improved coverage across jurisdictions.

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📂 Arrest Records Without Mugshots

TexArrest has expanded coverage to include arrest and booking records that do not include an associated mugshot.

These records are grouped under the category “No Mugshot Available.”

Not all agencies publish booking photos, and some images are delayed or never released publicly. Including these records ensures visibility is based on the availability of public arrest data — not the presence of a photo.

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🤖 Williamson County — Stable & Fully Integrated

Williamson County is now operating through a fully integrated and stable publishing workflow, requiring no ongoing manual intervention.

Recent improvements resolved edge cases that occasionally delayed the availability of certain booking images. These refinements have increased consistency and reliability across the entire Williamson County dataset.

Williamson County records are now:

• Stable
• Consistently published
• Fully aligned with platform standards

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🧪 Data Quality Improvements

While implementing the “No Mugshot Available” category, an additional benefit emerged: it helped identify records that required reprocessing due to temporary data availability issues.

As a result, several records were successfully updated with newly available booking images, improving overall dataset accuracy and reducing false “no mugshot” cases.

This process improved data quality across Williamson County without impacting publishing stability.

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🚔 Travis County (APD)

Travis County arrest records continue to be published consistently as new public booking information becomes available.

TexArrest maintains close alignment with Travis County’s publicly accessible records, ensuring timely and accurate publication.

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📍 Collin County

Collin County records are also publishing reliably through established workflows.

• Arrest records published consistently
• Mugshots processed where publicly available
• No ongoing manual intervention required

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⚡ TexBot — Final Integration Phase

Development of TexBot is nearing completion.

TexBot serves as an internal orchestration layer that supports:

• Identification of newly published public records
• Coordinated publishing workflows across counties
• Reduced manual oversight
• Improved consistency and reliability

TexBot is designed to support TexArrest’s mission of making publicly available arrest information easier to access, understand, and review.

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⚠️ Registered Sex Offender Data — Legal Review

TexArrest has evaluated whether to include Texas registered sex offender data. Although portions of this information are publicly available, Texas law applies additional restrictions to how registry data may be redistributed and presented.

These rules differ significantly from those governing standard arrest and booking records and carry increased compliance and liability considerations.

For that reason, TexArrest will not publish registry data unless it can be done lawfully, responsibly, and without risk of misrepresentation.

Evaluation of compliant approaches is ongoing.

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📊 Current Platform Status

• ✅ Williamson County fully integrated
• ✅ Travis County publishing consistently
• ✅ Collin County publishing consistently
• 📂 “No Mugshot Available” category live
• 🤖 TexBot nearing completion
• ⚖️ Registry data under legal review

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TexArrest continues to scale responsibly while maintaining accuracy, stability, and legal compliance.

More updates coming soon.

The previous update outlined progress toward bringing Williamson County (WilCo) fully online. This update confirms it.

Williamson County integration is now complete.

WilCo booking records are now being ingested, processed, and published on a near-daily basis, marking a major milestone in TexArrest’s statewide expansion.

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📸 Williamson County: Fully Integrated

After extensive development and validation, Williamson County support is now fully operational. This includes:

• ✅ Support for the county’s public access platform
• ✅ Automated intake and publishing workflows
• ✅ Consistent handling of mugshots, charges, and booking metadata
• ✅ Ongoing, reliable updates without manual intervention

The Williamson County pipeline is now stable and self-sustaining.

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📊 Early Scale Validation

Since expanded automation was enabled, TexArrest has successfully published:

• Thousands of booking records
• Across multiple Texas counties
• Within a short operational window

This confirms the TexArrest platform is operating reliably at real-world scale — beyond proof-of-concept and into sustained production.

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🚀 Next Focus: Tarrant County

With Williamson County stabilized, development is shifting toward Tarrant County, which operates on a different public records platform.

• It uses a non-Tyler public access system
• It expands TexArrest’s platform compatibility
• It strengthens long-term statewide coverage

In parallel, TexArrest will begin rolling out additional counties that share similar public access formats, leveraging the now-complete Williamson County framework.

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🧩 Offense Taxonomy: Ongoing Refinement

A continuing challenge across all counties is offense taxonomy normalization.

Even when counties reference the same statute, charge descriptions often vary in formatting, abbreviations, and embedded notes.

• Different wording for identical offenses
• Combined offense and agency descriptors
• Additional metadata embedded in charge titles

This makes consistent classification more complex than initially expected. However:

• The issue is well understood
• Normalization and filtering rules are actively expanding
• The goal is consistent grouping without losing original context

This work continues to improve daily.

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📈 Early Search Performance

Within the first ten days of search indexing, TexArrest has already shown strong early signals:

• 1,000+ organic clicks
• 3,000+ search impressions
• Average position near the top of page one

For a new platform, this confirms real demand for centralized access to Texas public arrest records.

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🔄 Current Status Snapshot

• ✅ Williamson County fully integrated
• ✅ Ongoing daily publishing
• 📸 Thousands of records live
• 🧱 Tyler-based public access platforms supported
• 🔄 Additional counties queued for rollout
• 🧪 Tarrant County analysis underway
• 📊 Strong early search traction

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🔜 What’s Next

• Expand coverage across additional Tyler-based counties
• Complete Tarrant County integration
• Continue refining offense taxonomy and normalization
• Improve cross-county consistency
• Strengthen platform performance and reliability

TexArrest has officially transitioned from build mode into scale mode.

More updates coming soon.

Following up on our previous update about bringing Williamson County (WilCo) online, TexArrest has officially moved into the next phase.

Williamson County booking records that include publicly available mugshots are now appearing on TexArrest.

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📸 Williamson County Mugshots: Now Live

With the Williamson County integration finalized, TexArrest has begun publishing Williamson County booking records that include mugshots, starting from:

🗓 January 1, 2025

Any WilCo booking event from that date forward that includes a publicly available photo and booking details may appear on TexArrest as it is identified, processed, and validated.

This marks a major step forward in expanding coverage beyond Travis and Collin County.

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⚠️ The Main Challenge: Limited Browseability

One unique challenge with Williamson County is that their public-facing portal does not offer a simple, complete “browse-all” view of current or historical bookings.

As a result, coverage depends on a combination of public search behavior, record availability, and portal constraints, which can make discovery less straightforward than counties that provide a fully browsable roster.

TexArrest is actively adapting to these limitations by improving how it identifies and processes newly available WilCo records over time.

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🧠 Improving Coverage: Discovery & Automation

Current development is focused on expanding WilCo coverage while maintaining platform stability and accuracy. Work in progress includes:

• Expanding discovery coverage for publicly available WilCo records
• Reducing duplicates and improving validation safeguards
• Improving processing speed and reliability across publishing cycles
• Strengthening normalization so WilCo records match cross-county formatting standards

The goal is simple: increase WilCo record coverage over time while keeping the system stable, consistent, and defensible.

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🤖 TexBot Development (In Parallel)

In parallel, development continues on TexBot — an internal automation system designed to support:

• Smarter discovery and prioritization for counties with limited browseability
• Balanced scheduling and workload management
• Reduced manual intervention
• Faster rollout across counties that publish similar public record formats

Importantly, Williamson County publishing continues while TexBot is being developed — progress on one does not block the other.

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🔄 Current Status

• ✅ Williamson County integration complete
• ✅ Mugshots now publishing for WilCo booking records
• 📆 Coverage starting January 1, 2025
• 🔄 Coverage expansion and validation improvements in progress
• 🤖 TexBot in development to improve discovery efficiency

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🚀 What’s Next

• Increase WilCo coverage as additional records become available
• Continue publishing WilCo records as they are identified and processed
• Improve automation speed and stability across publishing cycles
• Apply lessons learned to other counties with similar portal constraints
• Move closer to unified, statewide public arrest visibility

Williamson County is a major proving ground for TexArrest’s automation strategy, and progress here directly accelerates expansion across Texas.

More updates coming soon.

As development continues on the TexArrest backend infrastructure, work has been progressing on the next major county data source: Williamson County. While reviewing the structure of their publicly accessible jail records and preparing the corresponding data ingestion schema, an interesting detail appeared in the footer:

“Tyler Technologies.”

That small detail turned out to be an important discovery.

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🔍 A Williamson County Discovery With Statewide Impact

While building the Williamson County dataset — specifically the data ingestion and schema-mapping layer — it became clear that the county’s public access portal is powered by Tyler Technologies, a vendor used by a large number of Texas jurisdictions.

Further review showed that many counties publish their jail and court information through nearly identical Tyler-based public access portals.

This consistency significantly accelerates multi-county expansion.

Because these counties expose similar public record formats, TexArrest can apply shared data models and normalization rules, reducing the time required to bring additional counties online.

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🗂️ Texas Counties Using Tyler-Based Public Access Systems

The following counties are known to publish jail or court information through Tyler-powered public access portals:

• 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 (in progress)
• Hidalgo County – Courts / Jail Records
• Fort Bend County – Odyssey Public Access
• Collin County – Public Access (currently integrated)
• Webb County – Jail Records Portal

This opens the door for efficient, standardized expansion across Texas.

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📸 Platform Focus: Counties With Published Mugshots

Going forward, TexArrest is prioritizing counties that publicly display inmate mugshots alongside booking information.

When a county publishes:
✔️ an inmate photo
✔️ charges or offense descriptions
✔️ arrest date
✔️ booking date

TexArrest focuses on indexing and organizing that publicly available information.

Collin County is the first live example of this approach, offering full mugshot display alongside offense and booking details.

Future Data Enhancements

Where publicly available, TexArrest may expand supported data fields to include:

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

This positions TexArrest as a centralized reference point for publicly available jail information across Texas.

🛰️ One Place to Check Public Jail Rosters Across Texas

Instead of navigating dozens of county websites — each with different layouts and search tools — TexArrest aims to provide a single, unified interface for viewing publicly published jail and booking records.

If arrest and booking information is made publicly available by a county and includes an inmate photo, TexArrest works to organize and present that information clearly.

As more Tyler-based counties are added, this goal becomes increasingly achievable.

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💡 Why This Accelerates Development

Because many counties publish records using similar public access platforms, TexArrest can reuse:

• Shared data schemas
• Consistent normalization and validation rules
• Common record structures
• Standardized offense classification logic

This significantly reduces the engineering effort required for each additional county.

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🔧 Current Status

• Travis County ✔️
• Collin County ✔️ (mugshots and roster integrated)
• Williamson County 🔄 (data normalization and validation in testing)
• Taxonomy expansion planned following Williamson County stabilization
• Tyler-based counties mapped for staged rollout

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🚀 What’s Next for TexArrest

• Finalize Williamson County integration
• Begin staged expansion into additional Tyler-based counties
• Refine offense classification for cross-county consistency
• Support additional public data fields where available
• Introduce unified multi-county search tools
• Continue working toward Texas-wide public arrest visibility

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

More updates coming soon.

This page serves as the central place where I document what’s happening behind the scenes at TexArrest — site improvements, new features, platform stability updates, data enhancements, and upcoming tools as the project continues to evolve.

Over the past few weeks, TexArrest has grown from a simple concept into a fully operating platform that now includes:

• Frequently updated public arrest and booking records
• Structured offense taxonomy with standardized categories
• Featured mugshot and record highlighting system
• Texas Most Wanted profile expansion
• A companion application under development to support data intake, publishing workflows, and automation

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County Coverage Progress

• ✅ Travis County is fully indexed and live
• ✅ Collin County is completed and live
• 🔄 Williamson County is currently in progress

For Williamson County, we’ve established a reliable baseline for collecting and normalizing publicly available booking information, and we’re actively validating accuracy, consistency, and long-term stability.

The booking data format used by Williamson County is shared by many other Texas counties. Once finalized, this allows TexArrest to expand coverage more efficiently while maintaining consistent formatting and classification standards across jurisdictions.

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Known Issue: Offense Taxonomy Classification

There is a known offense classification issue affecting how certain charges are labeled between counties:

• Travis County publishes offense descriptions using one format
• Collin County uses a different labeling structure

The current taxonomy rules were initially tuned for Travis County, which means some Collin County offenses may be temporarily categorized in less-than-ideal groupings.

A broader taxonomy refinement is planned after Williamson County is finalized, allowing for standardized offense handling across all supported counties.

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What’s New

• 🚀 Launched the TexArrest Updates page
• 🔎 Expanded Texas Most Wanted profiles
• 🧩 Improved offense taxonomy visual presentation
• 📱 Continued development of the TexArrest backend application and publishing pipeline

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What’s Next

• 📸 Automated mugshot processing and featured image assignment
• 🗂 Faster expansion into additional Texas counties using standardized county templates
• 📊 Internal analytics dashboard for growth and performance metrics
• ⚙️ Improved data normalization, duplicate detection, and error handling
• 🔔 Optional notification features for record updates and platform changes

TexArrest continues to grow, and this page will remain an ongoing timeline of platform development and improvements. More updates coming soon.