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 1, 2026.
Talladega County, Alabama, has about 81,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Talladega County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Talladega 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: Talladega County public records, Alabama arrest records, Alabama inmate search and Alabama criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Talladega County
The Talladega County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Talladega County. It reported 365 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Talladega County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Talladega, 14,693 residents: 267 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sylacauga, 12,123 residents: 927 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lincoln, 7,790 residents: 415 arrests reported for 2025.
- Childersburg, 4,612 residents: 477 arrests reported for 2025.
- Munford, 1,358 residents.
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 Oxford Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Talladega County, so its arrests are not broken out for Talladega County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Talladega 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.
- Sylacauga: 927 for 2025, 838 for 2024, 429 for 2023, 464 for 2022 and 1,198 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Childersburg: 477 for 2025, 506 for 2024, 448 for 2023 and 350 for 2022.
- Lincoln: 415 for 2025, 481 for 2024, 400 for 2023, 354 for 2022, 334 for 2021 and 530 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Talladega County Sheriff's Office: 365 for 2025, 394 for 2024, 350 for 2023, 425 for 2022 and 886 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Talladega: 267 for 2025, 436 for 2024, 1,002 for 2023 and 1,154 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,451 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,451 in 2025 against 2,655 in 2024, down 7.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,363 arrests, against 1,512 in the same months of 2025.
Munford reported only part of 2025 (5 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Talladega County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Talladega 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 2021 the jail held about 330 people, up from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 485 beds, and it ran at 62 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 Talladega County Sheriff's Office at talladegasheriff.com (page title: Talladega County Sheriff), phone (256) 362-2748, 148 East Street N, 1st Floor, Talladega, AL 35160, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Talladega County
For Talladega County the place to look is the case index of the Talladega County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at talladega.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 761-2102).
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 Talladega 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 Talladega County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (256) 362-2748.
- An arrest in Talladega, Sylacauga, Lincoln, Childersburg or Munford: 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 Talladega County Circuit Court, through the court records page at talladega.alacourt.gov, phone (256) 761-2102.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Cities in Talladega County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the nine cities in Talladega County: Talladega, Sylacauga, Lincoln, Childersburg and Munford. Oak Grove, Waldo, Bon Air and Talladega 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 Talladega County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Talladega County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sylacauga (12,123)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Talladega County each year?
Sylacauga reported 927 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,451 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Talladega County?
Ask the Talladega County Sheriff's Office at (256) 362-2748; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at talladegasheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Talladega County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Talladega County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Talladega County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Talladega 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 Talladega County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Talladega 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 Talladega 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.