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.
Jackson County, Alabama, has about 54,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and eight 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 Jackson 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: Jackson County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Jackson County
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Jackson County. It reported 336 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists eight cities in Jackson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Scottsboro, 15,957 residents: 626 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bridgeport, 2,267 residents: 44 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stevenson, 1,975 residents: 43 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hollywood, 928 residents: 90 arrests reported for 2025.
- Skyline, 859 residents: 13 arrests reported for 2022.
- Section, 773 residents.
- Woodville, 755 residents.
- Pisgah, 690 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Jackson 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.
- Scottsboro: 626 for 2025 and 1,016 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Jackson County Sheriff's Office: 336 for 2025.
- Hollywood: 90 for 2025, 50 for 2024, 61 for 2023 and 95 for 2022.
- Bridgeport: 44 for 2025, 108 for 2023, 108 for 2022 and 148 for 2021; 2024 is missing months.
- Stevenson: 43 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 69 for 2023, 103 for 2022 and 135 for 2021.
- Skyline: 13 for 2022 and 22 for 2021.
- Pisgah: 4 for 2024.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,139 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 133 in 2025 against 84 in 2024, up 58 percent.
Through June 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 472 arrests, against 571 in the same months of 2025.
Pisgah and Skyline reported only part of 2025 (10 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jackson County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Jackson 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 2023 the jail held about 180 people, down from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 243 beds, and it ran at 103 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 Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Jackson County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, 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 Jackson County
An arrest in Jackson County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jackson County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at jackson.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 574-9320).
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 Jackson 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 Jackson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Scottsboro, Bridgeport, Stevenson, Hollywood, Skyline, Section or another of the cities listed above: 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 Jackson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at jackson.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 574-9320.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jacksoncountyal.gov (page title: PUBLIC DOCUMENT REQUEST FORM).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Jackson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the 13 cities in Jackson County: Scottsboro, Bridgeport, Stevenson, Hollywood, Skyline, Section, Woodville and Pisgah. Hytop, Pleasant Groves, Dutton, Langston and Paint Rock 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 Jackson County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Jackson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Scottsboro (15,957)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jackson County each year?
Scottsboro reported 626 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,139 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Jackson County?
Look on the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Jackson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Jackson County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Jackson 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 Jackson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jackson 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 jacksoncountyal.gov.
Is this the official Jackson 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.