Hood County Jail Mugshots Overview
Hood County's official bond/inmate listing displays current jail rows and opens a Hood County Sheriff Bond Report for each listed person. The public table itself shows Name, Race, Sex, and Book Date. The booking photo is not shown in the table row. It appears in the clicked detail profile when a public image is available. The profile is part of the Hood County Jail custody and bond system, operated through the Hood County Sheriff's Office, not a separate commercial mugshot site.
The inspected profile included a front-facing booking image embedded in the public detail report as a base64 JPEG. No side-angle photo, prior booking-photo history, full date of birth, housing unit, court date, or magistrate name was observed. Hood County did not publish a specific public retention period for booking photos in the inspected official pages, so the safest statement is that the image is available while the profile remains public and releasable, not that it stays online for a fixed number of hours or days.
The official roster starting point is the Hood County bond/inmate listing.
The screenshot reflects the key local difference: the public list is a bond roster table, and the booking photo appears only after a row is opened.
Where to Find Hood County Booking Photos
Start with the official Hood County bond/inmate listing at the sheriff's View Bonds path or directly at the county webapps address. It is free and did not require a login during inspection. It is also not a standard search form. The page loads a table, so users typically scan the list or use the browser's find function for a name, then click the matching row to open the bond report. If a person is not listed, they may not be in current custody, may have bonded out, may have been transferred, or may be in a state, federal, immigration, or municipal process outside the current county table.
- Open the Hood County bond/inmate listing at https://webapps.hoodcounty.texas.gov/bond/.
- Find the person in the table by name and book date; the table columns are Name, Race, Sex, and Book Date.
- Click the person's row to open the Hood County Sheriff Bond Report in the detail profile.
- Look near the top of the profile for the front-facing booking image when one is available.
- If no current profile appears, use the sheriff public-information process for a booking photo or booking record if legally releasable.
For questions about current custody, the jail line is 817-579-3333. For sheriff public-information routing, the main number is 817-579-3316, and written law-enforcement requests can be sent to PIALaw@hoodcounty.texas.gov or to Hood County Law Enforcement Center, PIA Request, 400 Deputy Larry Miller Dr, Granbury, TX 76048.
What a Hood County Booking Photo Shows
The public image is only one part of the profile. Hood County's sample bond report paired the photo with identity, physical-description, arrest, booking, offense, warrant, class, and amount fields. Those fields are jail and bond data, not a complete court record. The offense table observed in the profile used the column wording "Statue" for offense text as captured in the HTML, plus Warrant, Class, and Required Amount.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | Front-facing booking image embedded in the detail profile when available; no side-angle image was observed. |
| Name | Last, first, middle format, with a person or name ID shown in the profile. |
| Demographics | Address may display, along with hair, eye, height, ethnicity, and weight fields. |
| Booking Date | Booking timestamp separate from the arrest date and time. |
| Charges | Offense, warrant, class, required amount, and total amount fields tied to the bond report. |
| Not Observed | No full date of birth, housing unit, prior photo gallery, court date, or magistrate name was observed in the public sample. |
Are Hood County Jail Mugshots Public Record?
Texas Government Code Chapter 552, the Texas Public Information Act, presumes government records are public unless an exception applies. Hood County applies that public-information framework through its county and sheriff request channels. Texas does not have a broad statewide pre-conviction mugshot suppression law like some states, but that does not mean every image must be released in every situation. Exceptions may apply for juvenile confidentiality, expunction orders, active investigations, privacy or safety concerns, and other laws that make a record confidential or exempt from release.
Key Statutes:
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 - public information is generally available unless a legal exception allows or requires withholding.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55 - expunction law can affect official arrest records after an eligible court order.
Texas Family Code Chapter 58 - juvenile justice records can be treated differently from adult jail records.
How Long a Mugshot Stays on the Roster
Hood County did not publish a specific mugshot retention window in the inspected official pages. The bond/inmate listing appears to function as a current listing, and each row opens a current bond profile, but no official page stated that a booking photo stays public for 24 hours, 72 hours, a week, or permanently after release. Avoid treating the roster as a historical mugshot archive. If a person is no longer listed, the online profile may no longer be available through the public table even if a releasable booking record exists in agency files.
What is and isn't public: The public profile can show a front-facing booking image, physical descriptors, arrest and booking times, offense data, warrant fields, and bond amounts. It did not show side-angle photos, historical photo galleries, full birth dates, housing location, court dates, or magistrate names in the inspected sample. Records not online may require a written request and may still be withheld if a Texas exception applies.
How to Request a Hood County Booking Photo
If the booking photo is not available through the current bond profile, use the Hood County Sheriff's Office public-information route rather than a commercial mugshot site. Sheriff law-enforcement requests can be sent by email to PIALaw@hoodcounty.texas.gov, routed by phone at 817-579-3316, or mailed or delivered to Hood County Law Enforcement Center, PIA Request, 400 Deputy Larry Miller Dr, Granbury, TX 76048. The jail information line for custody questions is 817-579-3333.
Written requests should ask for existing records, not general answers. Include the person's full name, approximate arrest date, booking date if known, arresting agency, and the type of record requested, such as a booking photo, booking record, incident report, or call-for-service record. Hood County's public-information instructions state that only written requests trigger PIA obligations, and requests should be specific and include a time frame. A fee, redaction, or denial may apply depending on the record and the legal basis for release.
Mugshot Removal and Sealed Records
Hood County's inspected official pages did not publish a special mugshot-removal procedure. For official records, the practical route is the court-record route: obtain the appropriate order when eligible, then make sure the agencies holding the record receive and process that order. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55 governs expunction of qualifying criminal records. Sealing, nondisclosure, and expunction are legal processes, not simple website-removal requests.
A dismissed charge, rejected case, acquittal, or mistaken booking does not automatically erase every online or agency record. The court disposition must be checked through court records after jail arrest, and record-clearing questions should be handled through a lawyer, the clerk, or the agency holding the records. Commercial mugshot publishing and paid-removal services are outside the official Hood County records process and are not reliable substitutes for an order directed to the record holder.
Federal and State Booking Photos
Hood County Jail mugshots are county booking-profile records. They should not be confused with state prison, federal prison, or immigration custody records. A person sentenced to Texas prison should be searched through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice locator, which focuses on state custody identifiers, facility, offense, sentence, county of conviction, release, and parole information. TDCJ may show an offender photo, but that is not the Hood County jail booking photo.
Federal BOP and U.S. Marshals systems generally do not publish county-style mugshot galleries. ICE's detainee locator is for immigration custody location and status, not a mugshot gallery. If a person disappears from the Hood County bond roster, check the current-custody chain before assuming the photo was suppressed: Hood County Jail, court records, TDCJ, BOP, ICE, and Texas VINELink depending on the custody stage.
Why a Mugshot Is Not the Court Result
A Hood County jail mugshot is created during booking. The court result comes later through filed charges, hearings, pleas, trial, dismissal, or sentencing. The bond profile may show an offense and a required amount, but the prosecutor may file a different charge, amend a charge, reduce a count, decline a case, dismiss a case, or present a felony matter to a grand jury. That is why booking-photo records should be read alongside the court record, not as a final statement about guilt.
The Hood County 355th District Attorney represents the State of Texas and victims in felony criminal cases in the county. Local police and the sheriff investigate first, then turn evidence over for prosecution review. For misdemeanor, municipal, or city fine matters, the County Clerk, County Court at Law, County Attorney path, or Granbury Municipal Court may be more relevant than the felony DA office. The photo starts in the jail record; the legal outcome lives in the court record.
Records Limits for Hood County Mugshots
Several limits can affect access to Hood County booking photos. Juvenile records have confidentiality rules different from adult jail records. Active investigation records may be withheld or redacted under the Public Information Act. Expunction orders can require agencies to remove qualifying arrest records from public access. Privacy, safety, and criminal-history dissemination rules can also affect release. The open-records presumption is important, but it does not override every other Texas confidentiality rule.
When a booking photo is needed for an official purpose, request it from the agency rather than relying on screenshots. Ask for the record in writing, identify the person and date range, and specify whether the request is for the booking photo, the complete booking record, the incident report, or a court document. Court filings generally come from clerks, while sheriff reports and booking images go through the sheriff's PIA process.