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 October 2, 2026.
Geneva County, Alabama, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Geneva 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 Geneva 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: Geneva County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Geneva County
The Geneva County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Geneva County. It reported 243 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:
- Geneva, 4,242 residents: 371 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hartford, 2,763 residents: 187 arrests reported for 2019.
- Slocomb, 2,170 residents: 28 arrests reported for 2025.
- Samson, 1,882 residents: 97 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 Taylor Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Geneva County, so its arrests are not broken out for Geneva County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Geneva 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.
- Geneva: 371 for 2025 and 420 for 2021; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Geneva County Sheriff's Office: 243 for 2025, 340 for 2021 and 324 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Samson: 97 for 2025.
- Slocomb: 28 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2022 and 26 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
- Hartford: 187 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 739 arrests that year.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 441 arrests, against 488 in the same months of 2025.
Hartford reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Geneva County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Geneva 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 2019 the jail held about 97 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 95 beds, and it ran at 102 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 Geneva County Sheriff's Office at genevacountyalsheriff.org (page title: Geneva County, AL Jail Inmate Search, Recent Arrests, Warrant Lookup), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Geneva County
An arrest in Geneva County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Geneva County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Geneva County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at geneva.alacourt.gov, phone 334-684-5620); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at courtrecord.net/geneva-county-al-district-attorneys, phone 334-684-3697).
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 Geneva 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 Geneva County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Geneva, Hartford, Slocomb or Samson: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 334-684-3697, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Geneva County Circuit Court, through the court records page at geneva.alacourt.gov, phone 334-684-5620.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Geneva County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the seven cities in Geneva County: Geneva, Hartford, Slocomb and Samson. Malvern, Black and Coffee Springs 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 Geneva County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Geneva County each year?
Geneva reported 371 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 739 between them.
Where are people arrested in Geneva County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Geneva County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Geneva County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Geneva 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 Geneva County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Geneva 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 Geneva 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.