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 September 30, 2026.
Oxford, Alabama, in Calhoun County, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Oxford comes from a judge of the Calhoun 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Oxford public records, Calhoun County warrants, Oxford arrest records, Oxford inmate search, Oxford criminal records, Oxford court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Oxford
In Alabama an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Oxford that means the Calhoun 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is 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.
Who Serves Warrants in Oxford
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Oxford (filed by the FBI as Oxford Police Department) serve warrants in and around Oxford.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Calhoun County: Jacksonville State University (campus police); it serves warrants on its own ground.
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.
The agency that serves a warrant from Calhoun County is whichever one finds the person; an Alabama warrant is valid across Alabama.
Together, the seven agencies in Calhoun County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,289 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Oxford arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Oxford 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 Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, held about 500 people on an average day in 2021 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a custody page SearchSystems verified at calcoso.org/inmate-roster, phone (256) 236-6600. The Oxford inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Oxford on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Oxford
Whether a warrant is out from Oxford shows in four places:
- The court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk at (256) 231-1750, 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 District Attorney, which can say whether charges were filed; a warrant on a complaint follows the filing.
- The custody page of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office at calcoso.org/inmate-roster, which shows people already arrested and booked, not open warrants.
Not one of the Calhoun County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's, the court's, the prosecutor's and the records request page) 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 Oxford
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Oxford that means appearing before the Calhoun County Circuit Court or the District Court, with the case put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk.
A missed date in a case before the District Court is handled by that court, not by the Calhoun County Circuit Court.
A lawyer can often arrange the appearance in advance. The District Attorney's page SearchSystems verified is at calhouncleburnealada.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Oxford?
Not from the Calhoun 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 (256) 231-1750.
Who serves warrants in Oxford?
The agency that reports for Oxford inside the city and the Calhoun 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 Oxford held?
At the county jail, run by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Oxford 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 (256) 231-1750.
Is this the official Oxford 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.