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

Who Makes Arrests in Hueytown

The FBI lists Hueytown with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hueytown Police Department. It reported 651 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 Hueytown 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.

• Hueytown: 651 for 2025, 607 for 2024, 679 for 2023 and 969 for 2022.

Hueytown's 651 arrests in 2025 were up 7.2 percent from 607 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Hueytown reported 627 arrests, against 402 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 Hueytown Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Hueytown and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.

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 Hueytown

An arrest in Hueytown can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Hueytown

The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Hueytown police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at hueytownal.gov/1192/Police (page title: Police | Hueytown, AL), phone 205-491-3523, 1318 Hueytown Road Hueytown, AL 35023, 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 Hueytown each year?

Hueytown reported 651 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Hueytown 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 Hueytown?

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 Hueytown?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Hueytown 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 Hueytown 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.