Louisiana
What Louisiana's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Louisiana handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Magistrate (district judge or court commissioner, city or parish judge, mayor's court, or justice of the peace); jail staff on a court bail schedule
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- 72 hours
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- Public Safety Assessment (Orleans Parish) (some counties)
- Prosecutor
- District attorney, one per judicial district, elected
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- County sheriff
- Who decides release first
District judges and their commissioners, city and parish judges, mayor's courts, and justices of the peace can all set bail within their limits. In the largest parishes, an appointed commissioner usually sets bail first. For charges on a court's bail schedule, the jail can accept bail at the scheduled amount with no judge, unless the person asks for a special order.
La. C.Cr.P. art. 314La. C.Cr.P. art. 315La. C.Cr.P. art. 313- Time to see a judge
A person held after a warrantless arrest is entitled to a probable cause decision by a magistrate within 48 hours, which may be made on paper. The jail must bring the person before a judge for appointment of a lawyer within 72 hours, not counting weekends and holidays. The judge may set or review bail then.
La. C.Cr.P. art. 230.1La. C.Cr.P. art. 230.2- Money bail
Louisiana allows money bail, and a person charged with a crime is entitled to bail except in listed cases. Act 354 of 2026 bars bail again for a person who skipped court or forfeited bail while out on a firearm or sex offense charge, and limits bail after conviction.
La. C.Cr.P. art. 312Résumé digest, Act 354 (SB 93), 2026 Regular Session
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 78%
- of Louisiana's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 75%
- 176 of 233 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
57 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Amite Police DepartmentCity
- Assumption Parish Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Baldwin Police DepartmentCity
- Ball Police DepartmentCity
- Breaux Bridge Police DepartmentCity
- Bunkie Police DepartmentCity
- Cottonport Police DepartmentCity
- Coushatta Police DepartmentCity
- Cullen Police DepartmentCity
- Denham Springs Police DepartmentCity
- Department of Public Safety State Capitol DetailOther State Agency
- Dillard UniversityUniversity or College
- Eunice Police DepartmentCity
- Florien Police DepartmentCity
- Franklin Police DepartmentCity
- Franklinton Police DepartmentCity
- Grambling Police DepartmentCity
- Grambling State UniversityUniversity or College
- Jeanerette Police DepartmentCity
- Jena Police DepartmentCity
- Kaplan Police DepartmentCity
- Kentwood Police DepartmentCity
- Kinder Police DepartmentCity
- Leesville Police DepartmentCity
- Louisiana State University: Health Sciences Center, New OrleansUniversity or College
- Many Police DepartmentCity
- Melville Police DepartmentCity
- Merryville Police DepartmentCity
- Moreauville Police DepartmentCity
- New Llano Police DepartmentCity
- New Orleans Police DepartmentCity
- New Roads Police DepartmentCity
- Nicholls State UniversityUniversity or College
- Northwestern State UniversityUniversity or College
- Oakdale Police DepartmentCity
- Oberlin Police DepartmentCity
- Olla Police DepartmentCity
- Pineville Police DepartmentCity
- Port Barre Police DepartmentCity
- Red River Parish Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Rosedale Police DepartmentCity
- Roseland Police DepartmentCity
- Rosepine Police DepartmentCity
- Simmesport Police DepartmentCity
- South Louisiana Community CollegeUniversity or College
- Southern University and A&M College: Baton RougeUniversity or College
- Southern University and A&M College: ShreveportUniversity or College
- St. Martinville Police DepartmentCity
- State PoliceState Police
- Union Parish Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- University of Louisiana: LafayetteUniversity or College
- Vernon Parish Sheriff's OfficeCounty
- Ville Platte Police DepartmentCity
- Washington Police DepartmentCity
- Welsh Police DepartmentCity
- Woodworth Police DepartmentCity
- Youngsville Police DepartmentCity
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice (LCLE), Statistical Analysis Center, with the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association
- Incident reporting
- LIBRS (Louisiana Incident-Based Reporting System), FBI NIBRS-certified March 2003, hosted at the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association data center
- Annual report
- Crime in LouisianaLatest edition: 2024. Editions online 2005 to 2024, missing 2018.
- Online portal
- No state portal found.
- What changed
- Reports come out about 16 months after the data year (2024 released May 1, 2026). File names can mislead: Crime-in-LA-2024-FINAL-web.pdf is the 2023 edition.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Louisiana sources
Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
LCLE Statistical Analysis Center runs LIBRS, the state NIBRS program, and publishes Crime in Louisiana; also at crimeinla.org. Not on a .gov domain. Verified September 2026.
- Louisiana Supreme Court annual reportState · LA
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Courts · pdf · annual
Parish within district: criminal filings, jury trials, days to disposition; no disposed or pending. 2000-2025.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.