Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Opelika, Alabama, in Lee County, has about 35,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Opelika comes from a judge of the Lee County Circuit Court or the District Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Opelika public records, Lee County warrants, Opelika arrest records, Opelika inmate search, Opelika criminal records, Opelika court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Opelika
In Alabama an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Opelika that means the Lee County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $20,000, divorces and appeals from the district court; the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, issues its own warrants on the cases before it. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
A bench warrant follows a missed court date in any of those courts. Whichever kind it is, the warrant is part of the file of the case it was issued in, and the Circuit Clerk keeps that file.
For Lee County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at lee.alacourt.gov (page title: Lee County | Thirty-Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (334) 737-3526, 2311 Gateway Dr, Opelika, AL 36801, TUESDAY- FRIDAY 8:30AM-4:00PM, 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.
Who Serves Warrants in Opelika
The Lee County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Opelika (filed by the FBI as Opelika Police Department) serve warrants in and around Opelika.
The Notasulga Police Department and the Phenix City Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Lee County, so their arrests are not broken out for Lee County here.
The agency that serves a warrant from Lee County is whichever one finds the person; an Alabama warrant is valid across Alabama.
Together, the three agencies in Lee County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,036 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Opelika arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Opelika Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Lee County Sheriff's Office, held about 390 people on an average day in 2019 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a custody page SearchSystems verified at leecosheriffal.gov/corrections/inmate-search, phone (334) 749-5651. The Opelika inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Opelika on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Opelika
Whether a warrant is out from Opelika shows in three places:
- The court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk at (334) 737-3526, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
- Alacourt, the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription, for a case whose register of actions shows a warrant.
- The custody page of the Lee County Sheriff's Office at leecosheriffal.gov/corrections/inmate-search, which shows people already arrested and booked, not open warrants.
Not one of the Lee County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's and the court's) is a list of open warrants, so a check means asking the court or the prosecutor about a case by name.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is not open to the public in Alabama, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Opelika
A warrant is recalled by the court that issued it, so clearing one from Opelika starts with the Circuit Clerk at (334) 737-3526: the case goes back on the calendar and the judge recalls the warrant when the person appears.
A missed date in a case before the District Court is handled by that court, not by the Lee County Circuit Court.
More Official Wanted and Warrant Pages for Lee County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Lee County and Alabama. These wanted and warrant pages from its Lee County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Lee County, Thirty-Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama (lee.alacourt.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Opelika?
Not from the Lee County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription, and a case whose register of actions shows a warrant is the record of it. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Circuit Clerk at (334) 737-3526.
Who serves warrants in Opelika?
The agency that reports for Opelika inside the city and the Lee County Sheriff's Office outside it, or whichever agency finds the person; an Alabama warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Opelika held?
At the county jail, run by the Lee County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Opelika cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk at (334) 737-3526.
Is this the official Opelika 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.