Reviewed and updated October 7, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Hall County, Georgia, has about 222,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Georgia the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of Superior Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Georgia Crime Information Center is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Hall County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Hall County public records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Hall County Superior Court
In Georgia the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Hall County are heard by the Hall County Superior Court, which hears felonies, divorces, land title cases and civil cases without a dollar limit; the State Court and Magistrate Court take misdemeanors and traffic cases in the State Court where the county has one, otherwise in the Probate Court; small claims and warrants in the Magistrate Court, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court.
Georgia has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Georgia Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Georgia is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: Georgia Felon Search lets anyone check felony convictions online by name, through the Georgia Crime Information Center. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at gbi.georgia.gov/services/obtaining-criminal-history-record-informat....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Hall County
The Hall County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Gainesville, Flowery Branch and Oakwood keep the arrest records in Hall County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hall County: the Hall County Marshal (other agency); the State Patrol at Gainesville (state police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Braselton Police Department is listed by the FBI across four counties including Hall County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hall County here.
Together, the four agencies in Hall County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 4,498 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Hall County in 2025
The three agencies in Hall County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 506 violent and 2,038 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,544 crimes in 2025 against 2,934 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Hall County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Hall County
Charges in Hall County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Hall County Superior Court or the State Court and Magistrate Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at nejcga.gov/attorney (page title: District Attorney | Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia), phone (770) 531-6965, 3050 Dawson County Courthouse 25 Justice Way Suite 3321 Dawsonville, GA 30534, Monday - Friday 8 AM to 5 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Hall County
Registered sex offenders living in Hall County are listed on the Georgia Sex Offender Registry, run by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at state.sor.gbi.ga.gov/sort_public. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff keeps the local list.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Hall County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Georgia Open Records Act a county office must answer a request within 3 business days, and it may charge for search, retrieval and copying after the first quarter hour. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hallcounty.org/381/Open-Records-Requests (page title: Hall County Sheriff's Office Open Records Requests | Hall County, GA).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Hall County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Hall County and Georgia. These criminal records pages from its Hall County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Most Wanted (hallcounty.org)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Hall County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Georgia Crime Information Center: Georgia Felon Search lets anyone check felony convictions online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Georgia Open Records Act.
How do I get my own Georgia criminal history?
A fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Who prosecutes crimes in Hall County?
The District Attorney, reached at (770) 531-6965, which files its cases in the Hall County Superior Court or the State Court and Magistrate Court.
Is this the official Hall County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.