Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc.

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. is to engage, educate, and empower citizens, communities, businesses, schools, visitors, the media, and law enforcement agencies in Hays County, Texas by deterring crime; encouraging anonymous crime reporting; providing monetary rewards for information that helps law enforcement solve unsolved crimes and arrest wanted fugitives; and helping to make our communities, businesses, and schools safer for all.

This is accomplished through three core goals: ENGAGE—EDUCATE—EMPOWER.

We ENGAGE our citizens, communities, businesses, schools, visitors, the media, and law enforcement agencies through open communication and active listening to the needs of all stakeholders.

We EDUCATE our citizens, communities, businesses, schools, visitors, the media, and law enforcement agencies through the sharing of ideas, proven facts, and concepts that are designed to bring all stakeholders together in understanding how to make our communities safer.

We EMPOWER our citizens, communities, businesses, schools, visitors, the media, and law enforcement agencies to make our communities, businesses, and schools safer places to live, work, learn, and visit.

About Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc.

On June 17, 1981, San Marcos Crime Stoppers was founded. As Hays County continued to grow, it was recognized that the need to expand the program to cover the entire county was needed. In 1991, San Marcos Crime Stoppers became Hays County Crime Stoppers to better serve the citizens and businesses of Hays County. Since the inception of the program, Hays County Crime Stoppers has assisted in more than 840 arrests, assisted in clearing over 980 cases, approved more than $89,000 in reward money for tips, assisted in recovering over $480,000 in stolen property, and assisted in seizing over $13 million in illegal drugs. This was all initiated by anonymous tips. Hays County continues to be one of the fastest growing counties in the state and nation.

Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization (Tax ID: 74-2202781), and charitable gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of federal tax laws.

The executive director for Hays County Crime Stoppers operates this website and the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip services (telephone tipline, web tips, and mobile tips app). While Hays County Crime Stoppers hosts these services, Law enforcement agencies throughout Hays County contribute to and utilize the centralized website and tip-taking resources. Tips received via the telephone tipline, this website, or the mobile tips app will be directed to the appropriate Crime Stoppers program or directly to the investigating law enforcement agency. Rewards, when authorized, will be handled by and in accordance with the policies of the Crime Stoppers program handling the tip.

Crime Stoppers accepts tips ONLY by telephone (1-800-324-TIPS), through Crime Stoppers' website (Tip Form), and via Crime Stoppers' P3 Tips App for iOS or Android.

As long as the published Tipline telephone number or website address instructions are used, tips are passed through a software program that masks all sender information. A randomized report number is assigned to each tip so the tipster’s identity is never known to Crime Stoppers or any law enforcement officer/investigator involved in the case.

When Tipsters communicate with Crime Stoppers, following the initial tip submission, whether to provide additional information, check the status of the investigation, or learn if a reward has been authorized, they must use the report number assigned to their tip. Because the process is anonymous, the report number is the only way for Crime Stoppers to locate the tip and provide an update to the Tipster.

Anonymity is not Crime Stoppers’ promise -- IT IS THE LAW. In Texas, a person, including a law enforcement officer, may commit a crime if the person intentionally or knowingly divulges the identity of a Crime Stoppers Tipster. Crime Stoppers needs the information you have regarding crimes and criminals, not your name. To further ensure a tipster’s identity is never known, CRIME STOPPERS PAYS REWARDS ONLY FOR ANONYMOUS TIPS; tipsters who identify themselves are not eligible for payment.

PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. respects your right to privacy. We have created this Privacy Policy to advise you of how we protect non-public personal information that might be collected in the course of providing services.

Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. does not directly collect personal information concerning you or your use of our website or other tip-taking resources. We do not use or disclose your personal information, nor do we sell your personal information to anyone.

The anonymity of Crime Stoppers Tipsters is safeguarded legislatively as well as administratively by procedures we have implemented to ensure its protection. Tipster anonymity is not Crime Stoppers’ promise -- IT IS THE LAW. In Texas, a person, including a law enforcement officer, may commit a crime if the person intentionally or knowingly divulges the identity of a Crime Stoppers Tipster. Crime Stoppers needs the information you have regarding crimes and criminals, not your name. To further ensure a tipster’s identity is never known, CRIME STOPPERS PAYS REWARDS ONLY FOR ANONYMOUS TIPS; tipsters who identify themselves are not eligible for payment.

The importance of anonymity cannot be overemphasized. A tipster will be anonymous unless the tipster tell someone that they submitted a Crime Stoppers Tip.

The Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. website may contain links to websites of other organizations and companies. These links are for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement of the content, viewpoint, policies, products, or services of the websites. Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. has no control over and is therefore not responsible for the privacy practices of organizations and companies with links on our website.

Any questions about our Privacy Policy can be directed to Hays County Crime Stoppers, Attention: Executive Director, Post Office Box 61, San Marcos, Texas 78667-0061.

Last Updated January 11, 2026 @ 9:45 PM

TERMS OF USE

All original content on this website (including all information, text, images, graphics, software, displays, and images) and the design, selection, coordination, and arrangement thereof, are proprietary to Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. and are protected by United States and international laws regarding copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other proprietary rights.

You are authorized only to use the content on this website for personal use or legitimate business purposes related to your role as a current or prospective tipster or media partner of Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. You may not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, or perform, republish, repost to another site, store, transmit, or distribute any of the material on this site without the prior written consent of Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc., except to: (a) store copies of such materials temporarily in RAM, (b) store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes and (c) print a reasonable number of pages of the website; provided in each case that you do not alter or remove any copyright or other proprietary notices included in such materials.

Neither the title nor any intellectual property rights to any information or material in this website are transferred to you, but remain with Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. or the applicable owner of such content. Except as expressly authorized by Hays County Crime Stoppers, Inc. in writing, you may not reproduce, sell, or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any part of this website, (b) access to this website or (c) use of this website or of any services or materials available through this website.

Last Updated January 11, 2026 @ 9:45 PM