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 on September 24, 2026.
Calhoun County, Alabama, has about 116,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one campus agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Calhoun County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Calhoun County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Calhoun County
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Calhoun County. It reported 333 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Oxford, 22,088 residents: 826 arrests reported for 2025.
- Anniston, 21,127 residents: 1,167 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jacksonville, 14,651 residents: 464 arrests reported for 2025.
- Piedmont, 4,706 residents: 127 arrests reported for 2025.
- Weaver, 3,317 residents: 349 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ohatchee, 1,199 residents: 23 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Calhoun County: Jacksonville State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Calhoun County
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.
- Anniston: 1,167 for 2025, 1,134 for 2024, 1,118 for 2023, 889 for 2022 and 2,254 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Oxford: 826 for 2025, 881 for 2024, 983 for 2023 and 1,019 for 2022.
- Jacksonville: 464 for 2025, 399 for 2023 and 549 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Weaver: 349 for 2025, 426 for 2024, 538 for 2023, 562 for 2022, 469 for 2021 and 618 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Calhoun County Sheriff's Office: 333 for 2025, 250 for 2023 and 3,419 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Piedmont: 127 for 2025, 110 for 2024, 93 for 2023 and 145 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Ohatchee: 23 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 37 for 2023, 6 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 94 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,289 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,492 in 2025 against 2,571 in 2024, down 3.1 percent.
Through August 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,215 arrests, against 1,395 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Calhoun County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Calhoun County 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 2021 the jail held about 500 people, up from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 77 beds, and it ran at 382 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office at calcoso.org/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Calhoun County Sheriff's Office), phone (256) 236-6600, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Calhoun County
An arrest in Calhoun County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Calhoun County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at calhoun.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 231-1750); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at calhouncleburnealada.org).
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 Calhoun County
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 Calhoun County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (256) 236-6600.
- An arrest in Oxford, Anniston, Jacksonville, Piedmont, Weaver or Ohatchee: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Jacksonville State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Calhoun County Circuit Court, through the court records page at calhoun.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 231-1750.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at calhoun.alacourt.gov (page title: Calhoun County | Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Calhoun County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in Calhoun County: Oxford, Anniston, Jacksonville, Piedmont, Weaver and Ohatchee. Hobson City has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Calhoun County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Calhoun County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Calhoun County each year?
Anniston reported 1,167 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,289 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Calhoun County?
Look on the custody page of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office at calcoso.org/inmate-roster, or call (256) 236-6600. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Calhoun County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Calhoun County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Calhoun 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 Calhoun County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 calhoun.alacourt.gov.
Is this the official Calhoun County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.