Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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). In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Jackson County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Jackson County public records, Jackson County arrest records, Jackson County warrants, Jackson County inmate search, Jackson County court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Jackson County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Jackson County is filed in the Jackson County Circuit Court or the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Jackson County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at jackson.alacourt.gov (page title: Jackson County | Thirty-Eighth Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (256) 574-9320, 102 East Laurel Street, Scottsboro, AL 35768, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
The Alabama Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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 file in the Jackson County Circuit Court is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to ALEA. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at alea.gov/sbi/criminal-justice-services/criminal-records.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Jackson County
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Scottsboro, Bridgeport, Stevenson, Hollywood, Skyline, Section and two more cities keep the arrest records in Jackson County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
Together, the five agencies in Jackson County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,139 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Jackson County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Jackson County in 2025
The five agencies in Jackson County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 133 violent and 802 property crimes to the FBI that year; the three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 121 crimes in 2025 against 106 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Jackson County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Jackson County
Registered sex offenders living in Jackson County are listed on the Alabama Sex Offender Registry, run by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency at alea.gov/node/43. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Jackson County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Alabama Public Records Law a county office must answer a request within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jacksoncountyal.gov/DocumentCenter/View/393/PUBLIC-DOCUMENT-REQUEST... (page title: PUBLIC DOCUMENT REQUEST FORM).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Jackson County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Jackson County and Alabama. These criminal records pages from its Jackson County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Sex Offender Registry (alea.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal 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.
Can I search Jackson County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at jackson.alacourt.gov (page title: Jackson County | Thirty-Eighth Circuit Court of Alabama). Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
How do I get my own Alabama criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
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.