{"unit_warning":"No figure here is a count of missing children, because no public record holds one. Every figure names its unit.","name":"San Antonio Missing Children Records API","description":"What the public records count about missing children in Texas, Bexar County and San Antonio, each figure with its unit and its source. None of them is a count of missing children.","meta":{"built":"2026-09-10T22:24:34Z","dps_years":[2020,2025],"dfps_fiscal_year":2023,"ncic_year":2025,"sapd_record_ends":"2026-08-31","cadence":"Rebuilt once a year, when the state and federal reports are published."},"refusals":["No figure is a count of missing children: no public record holds one.","Nothing identifies a child: no name, photo, poster, row per child or place last seen.","No rate and no ranking: the DPS report does not say which county an entry is filed under, so no population is put beneath a county figure, and counties are served alphabetically.","No response time: the San Antonio police interval column is undefined, and these call types include adults.","No route takes a county, a place, a year or a name."],"endpoints":{"records":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/records","counties":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/counties","quality":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/quality","records_csv":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/records.csv","counties_csv":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/counties.csv","openapi":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/api\/v1\/missing-children-records\/openapi.json"},"documentation":"https:\/\/brandshyp.org\/san-antonio-missing-children\/","if_a_child_is_missing":"Call 911. There is no waiting period in Texas. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: 1-800-843-5678. BrandShyp is not an agency and cannot receive or forward a tip.","caveats":["No public record counts missing children in Bexar County or San Antonio. Every figure on this page counts something else, and says what.","The Texas DPS figures are database entries, not children. A child reported missing three times in a year is three entries, and an entry is made on a report, not on a finding that the child was in danger.","The DPS report does not define juvenile. Texas law defines a child as under 18; federal law requires a missing person record for anyone under 21. The report does not say which it counts.","The DPS report does not say whether a county is where the entering agency sits or where the child lives.","Texas House Bill 908 took effect on September 1, 2025 and requires an entry within two hours of a report. 2025 is the first year partly under that rule, so the change from 2024 to 2025 is not a clean comparison.","The DFPS Bexar County figure counts children by the county they were placed in when they first went missing. The DFPS custody count by county does not say which county it uses, so the two are not divided into a rate.","The San Antonio Police calls record puts missing adults and missing children in the same call type, and has no age field, so no figure from it is a count of children.","The Sheriff figures cover calls the Sheriff's own patrol handled. Calls dispatched for other police departments, and calls an officer started, are set aside before counting, so the Sheriff series is a floor for the county.","No record here says how many children were found, or how quickly. The sources record a report, not an outcome.","Nothing on this page places a child more precisely than NCMEC's own posters do. The only photos are NCMEC's current posters, loaded live and never saved, because a copy kept anywhere else goes stale when the child is found.","The county map is shaded by the count of entries, never by a rate. Because the DPS report does not say which county an entry is filed under, no population can be put beneath it. A county with more people and more police agencies files more reports, so the map shows where reports were filed, not where children are in danger.","The San Antonio ZIP map shows where police logged missing person calls, of any age. It is not a map of children and not a rate: the record has no age field, and a call is logged where police were sent, so a ZIP code holding a hospital, a care home, a shelter or a residential treatment center can carry many calls about people who do not live there. ZIP code is the finest place the record holds. A ZIP code with fewer than 25 calls over the whole period is not drawn, and its calls stay in every total."],"sources":[{"publisher":"Texas Department of Public Safety","record":"Texas Missing Person Entries by County into NCIC, one report per year","url":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/apps\/mpch\/","reports":{"2020":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2020txcomsngpersonentries.pdf","2021":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2021txcomsngpersonentries.pdf","2022":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2022txcomsngpersonentries.pdf","2023":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2023txcomsngpersonentries.pdf","2024":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2024txcomsngpersonentries.pdf","2025":"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/intelligencecounterterrorism\/statistics\/2025txcomsngpersonentries.pdf"}},{"publisher":"Texas Department of Family and Protective Services","record":"Children and Youth Missing from DFPS Conservatorship, FY2023","url":"https:\/\/www.dfps.texas.gov\/About_DFPS\/Reports_and_Presentations\/Agencywide\/documents\/2024\/2024-05-31_Children_Youth_Missing_DFPS_Conservatorship_Human_Trafficking_Data_FY2023_Report.pdf"},{"publisher":"Texas Department of Family and Protective Services","record":"Children in DFPS legal responsibility by county","url":"https:\/\/data.texas.gov\/d\/v7mp-wh8p"},{"publisher":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","record":"2025 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics","url":"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/2025-ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics.pdf"},{"publisher":"City of San Antonio","record":"SAPD calls for service","url":"https:\/\/data.sanantonio.gov\/dataset\/sapd-calls-for-service"},{"publisher":"City of San Antonio","record":"SAPD offenses","url":"https:\/\/data.sanantonio.gov\/dataset\/sapd-offenses"},{"publisher":"Bexar County","record":"Sheriff\u2019s Office incident feed","url":"https:\/\/maps.bexar.org\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/BCSO\/Incidents\/MapServer"},{"publisher":"U.S. Census Bureau","record":"TIGERweb county names and identifiers","url":"https:\/\/tigerweb.geo.census.gov\/"}],"license_note":"No license is asserted for these public records. Each is published by the agency named in sources; this API is a compilation of them by BrandShyp."}