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 27, 2026.
Coffee County, Alabama, has about 56,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Coffee 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: Coffee County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Coffee County
The Coffee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Coffee County. It reported 687 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Coffee County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Enterprise, 30,731 residents: 870 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elba, 3,531 residents: 310 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Brockton, 1,512 residents: 21 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kinston, 599 residents: 39 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Coffee County: Enterprise State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Coffee 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.
- Enterprise: 870 for 2025, 867 for 2024, 793 for 2023, 664 for 2022 and 1,266 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Coffee County Sheriff's Office: 687 for 2025, 699 for 2024, 714 for 2023, 775 for 2022 and 649 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Elba: 310 for 2025, 247 for 2024, 274 for 2023 and 288 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Kinston: 39 for 2025, 34 for 2023, 48 for 2022 and 45 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
- New Brockton: 21 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 35 for 2023, 24 for 2022 and 29 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,927 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,888 in 2025 against 1,838 in 2024, up 2.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 869 arrests, against 1,079 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Coffee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Coffee County 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 2021 the jail held about 120 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 156 beds, and it ran at 81 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office at coffeeso.us (page title: Coffee County Sheriff’s Office AL), phone (334) 894-5535, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Coffee County
Whether someone was arrested in Coffee County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Coffee County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coffee.alacourt.gov, phone (800) 354-6154); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at coffeecounty.us/m/directory/department?did=19, phone (334) 347-1142).
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 Coffee County
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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (334) 894-5535.
- An arrest in Enterprise, Elba, New Brockton or Kinston: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Enterprise State Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (334) 347-1142, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Coffee County Circuit Court, through the court records page at coffee.alacourt.gov, phone (800) 354-6154.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Coffee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Coffee County: Enterprise, Elba, New Brockton and Kinston.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Coffee County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Coffee County each year?
Enterprise reported 870 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,927 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Coffee County?
Ask the Coffee County Sheriff's Office at (334) 894-5535; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at coffeeso.us.
Where are people arrested in Coffee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Coffee County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Coffee 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 Coffee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Coffee 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.
Is this the official Coffee 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.