Reviewed and updated October 9, 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 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Anniston, Alabama, in Calhoun County, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Anniston 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 and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Calhoun County Circuit Court
In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Anniston are heard by the Calhoun County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $20,000, divorces and appeals from the district court; the District Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Clerk.
For Calhoun County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at calhoun.alacourt.gov (page title: Calhoun County | Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (256) 231-1750, 25 West 11th Street, Anniston, AL 36201, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
The Alabama Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Alabama does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Calhoun County Circuit Court is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to ALEA. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at alea.gov/sbi/criminal-justice-services/criminal-records.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Anniston
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Anniston (filed by the FBI as Anniston Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Anniston: 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 one more agency in Calhoun County: Jacksonville State University (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Glencoe Police Department and the Southside Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Calhoun County, so their arrests are not broken out for Calhoun County here.
Together, the seven agencies in Calhoun County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,289 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Anniston arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Anniston in 2025
The agency that reports for Anniston had 153 violent and 758 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Calhoun County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Calhoun County become charges and files them in the Calhoun County Circuit Court or the District Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at calhouncleburnealada.org (page title: Seventh Judicial Circuit of Alabama District Attorney's Office | calhoun county da | Alabama, USA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Anniston
Registered sex offenders living in Anniston are listed on the Alabama Sex Offender Registry, run by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency at alea.gov/node/43. The registry is public and can be searched online.
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 Calhoun 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 Alabama Public Records Law a county office must answer a request within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at calhoun.alacourt.gov/record-request-and-copies (page title: Calhoun County | Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Anniston?
The court files of criminal cases in the Calhoun County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Alabama Public Records Law.
Can I search Anniston criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at calhoun.alacourt.gov (page title: Calhoun County | Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama). Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
How do I get my own Alabama criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Who prosecutes crimes in Anniston?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the Calhoun County Circuit Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Anniston website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.