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.
Escambia County, Alabama, has about 37,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. 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 Escambia 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: Escambia County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Escambia County
The Escambia County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Escambia County. It reported 33 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Atmore, 8,310 residents: 898 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brewton, 5,129 residents: 326 arrests reported for 2025.
- East Brewton, 2,251 residents: 127 arrests reported for 2025.
- Flomaton, 1,447 residents: 74 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Escambia County
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.
- Atmore: 898 for 2025, 696 for 2024, 571 for 2023, 553 for 2022 and 559 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Brewton: 326 for 2025, 396 for 2024, 343 for 2023, 315 for 2022 and 343 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- East Brewton: 127 for 2025, 181 for 2024, 153 for 2023 and 156 for 2022.
- Flomaton: 74 for 2025, 122 for 2024, 129 for 2023, 161 for 2022 and 84 for 2021.
- Escambia County Sheriff's Office: 33 for 2025, 0 for 2022 and 0 for 2021; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,458 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,425 in 2025 against 1,395 in 2024, up 2.2 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,083 arrests, against 896 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Escambia County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Escambia 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 2023 the jail held about 260 people, down from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 132 beds, and it ran at 200 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 Escambia County Sheriff's Office at escambiacountysheriffal.org/roster.php (page title: Inmate Roster | Current Inmates Booking Date Descending | Escambia County Sheriff, AL), phone 251-809-0741, 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 Escambia County
Whether someone was arrested in Escambia County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Escambia County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Escambia County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at escambia.alacourt.gov, phone (251) 867-0305).
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 Escambia 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 Escambia County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 251-809-0741.
- An arrest in Atmore, Brewton, East Brewton or Flomaton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Escambia County Circuit Court, through the court records page at escambia.alacourt.gov, phone (251) 867-0305.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Escambia County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Escambia County: Atmore, Brewton, East Brewton and Flomaton. Riverview and Pollard have 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 Escambia County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Escambia County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Atmore (8,310)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Escambia County each year?
Atmore reported 898 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,458 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Escambia County?
Look on the custody page of the Escambia County Sheriff's Office at escambiacountysheriffal.org/roster.php, or call 251-809-0741. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Escambia County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Escambia County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Escambia 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 Escambia County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Escambia 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 Escambia 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.