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

Who Makes Arrests in Semmes

The FBI lists Semmes with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Semmes Police Department. It reported 314 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 Mobile County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 930 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Mobile County: Mobile Regional Airport (other); the University of South Alabama, Bishop State Community College and Spring Hill College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Semmes Reports

The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.

• Semmes: 314 for 2025, 429 for 2024 and 546 for 2023.

Semmes's 314 arrests in 2025 were down 27 percent from 429 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Semmes reported 129 arrests, against 237 in the same months of 2025.

Across Mobile County, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,909 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Semmes Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Semmes 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 2024 the jail held about 1,450 people, up from about 1,330 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,183 beds, and it ran at 134 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office at mobileso.com/jail-web-portal (page title: Jail Web Portal | Mobile County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Semmes

For Semmes the place to look is the case index of the Mobile County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mobile.alacourt.gov, phone (251) 574-8806).

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 Semmes

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 Semmes police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsemmesal.gov/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Semmes), phone (251) 459-6062, 3940 Illinois Street Semmes, Alabama 36575 Lott Road Precinct Address: 6180 Lott Road Semmes, AL 36575, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Mobile County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Mobile County Circuit Court, through the court records page at mobile.alacourt.gov, phone (251) 574-8806.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mobileal.justfoia.com (page title: Mobile, AL Public Portal | JustFOIA).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Semmes each year?

Semmes reported 314 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Semmes?

Ask the Mobile County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at mobileso.com/jail-web-portal.

Where are people arrested in Semmes booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Semmes?

The court files of criminal cases in the Mobile 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 Semmes?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Semmes police for its own arrests, the Mobile 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 mobileal.justfoia.com.

Is this the official Semmes 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.