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Privacy Notice

This notice describes the information Dallas County Recent Arrests may receive when someone visits the site, submits a message, or uses an embedded search service. It explains how that information is used, the limited circumstances in which it may be shared, and the safeguards applied to it. By continuing to use the site, a visitor accepts the practices described below. Services reached through an outside link or search provider operate under their own privacy terms.

Information You Choose to Send

Terms Entered in Search Tools

When a visitor enters a name, place, or other term into a search tool displayed on this site, the query is transmitted to the third-party company that provides that tool. Dallas County Recent Arrests does not store or log those search terms on its own systems. The provider may handle the query according to its separate privacy policy, which visitors should review before using the service.

Emails and Submitted Messages

If someone emails us or uses an available contact form, we retain the message and contact details for as long as reasonably needed to review the inquiry and send a response. We do not share that correspondence outside the organization unless disclosure is required by law, a valid court order, or another binding legal process.

Technical Information Collected During Visits

As with most websites, standard technical records may be created automatically when a page loads. These records help operate the site and understand broad patterns of use. They can include:

  • The visitor's Internet Protocol address
  • The browser name and version in use
  • The device category and operating system
  • Pages opened and the time spent on them
  • The referring website, when one is supplied
  • Date and time stamps associated with requests

Cookies and Similar Storage

Cookies may be used to understand how visitors move through the site and which pages are useful. A browser can be configured to reject or delete cookies. Blocking them may change how some features work or prevent a third-party service from remembering a visitor's choices.

Reasons We Use Information

Information received through site activity is used only for ordinary operational, measurement, and service functions. Those uses include:

  • Keeping pages available, stable, and responsive
  • Sending a search request to the selected partner service
  • Understanding which Dallas County guidance visitors find useful
  • Diagnosing errors, broken pages, and performance issues
  • Displaying advertising that may reflect general visitor interests

Privacy Beyond This Website

Pages on this site may link to the Dallas County Sheriff, Missouri courts and corrections resources, custody or booking systems, federal portals, news sources, and outside search tools. After a visitor follows one of those links, the destination controls its own collection and use of information. This privacy notice does not govern an agency portal, publisher, advertiser, or search provider.

Some advertising companies may use cookies or related technology on their own systems to recognize activity across more than one website and select interest-based advertising. Their collection occurs through their services and is governed by their policies, not by a promise made on this page.

Parties That May Receive Information

We do not sell personal information. Limited information may be transmitted or disclosed when needed for site functions or when the law requires it. Potential recipients are:

  • Search-service partners that process queries submitted to their tools
  • Analytics providers that measure traffic and site performance
  • Advertising networks that deliver or measure advertisements
  • Law-enforcement agencies or other government bodies responding to a valid legal order

Steps Taken to Safeguard Data

Reasonable, commonly used administrative and technical safeguards are applied to information handled by this site. Even careful security practices cannot make an internet-connected service completely secure. We therefore cannot promise that unauthorized access, loss, interception, or another security incident will never occur.

Visitors Younger Than 18

Dallas County Recent Arrests is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. A parent or guardian who believes a minor submitted personal information may contact us and request its deletion. We will review the request and remove information under our control when appropriate.

Choices Concerning Your Data

Subject to applicable law and the limits of what this site controls, a person may make the following requests about personal information held by us:

  • Ask for a copy of the personal information we maintain
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Ask for deletion of information where erasure applies
  • Object to or opt out of certain forms of processing

These requests apply to information controlled by this site. A government record, third-party search query, advertising profile, or analytics record may need to be addressed directly with the organization that holds it.

Revisions to This Notice

This privacy notice may be revised as site practices, services, or legal duties change. An updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date so visitors can review the current terms.

Effective date: September 11, 2026.