Homewood Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Homewood

The FBI lists Homewood with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Homewood Police Department. It reported 1,818 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.

Outside the city, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,438 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jefferson County: the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Jefferson State Community College, Miles College, Lawson State Community College and one more (campus police); the Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission Police (state agency); Norfolk Southern Railway and Trussville Fire Department Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit (other).

How Many Arrests Homewood Reports

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.

• Homewood: 1,818 for 2025, 1,887 for 2024, 2,528 for 2023 and 1,653 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.

Homewood's 1,818 arrests in 2025 were down 3.7 percent from 1,887 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Homewood reported 1,156 arrests, against 1,121 in the same months of 2025.

Across Jefferson County, the 21 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,082 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Homewood Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Homewood is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 920 people, down from about 1,380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,155 beds, and it ran at 80 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Homewood

Whether someone was arrested in Homewood, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at jefferson.alacourt.gov, phone (205) 325-5355); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at jccal.org/370/District-Attorneys-Office---Birmingham, phone 205-325-5252).

Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.

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's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Homewood

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Alabama Public Records Law the agency must answer within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.

• An arrest by the Homewood police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at homewoodpd.org/police-reports (page title: Police Reports), phone 205-332-6200, 310 West Valley Avenue Homewood AL 35209, Monday 8:30am - 4:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 205-325-5252, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Jefferson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at jefferson.alacourt.gov, phone (205) 325-5355.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jeffersoncounty.nextrequest.com (page title: Public Record RequestsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.

The Jefferson County guide covers every agency in the county: Jefferson County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Homewood each year?

Homewood reported 1,818 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Homewood booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Homewood?

The court files of criminal cases in the Jefferson 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.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Homewood?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Homewood police for its own arrests, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Alabama Public Records Law the answer is due within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jeffersoncounty.nextrequest.com.

Is this the official Homewood 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.