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 25, 2026 and September 27, 2026.
Dixie County, Florida, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dixie County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and six campus, state or other 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 State Attorney files charges, a case in the Dixie 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: Dixie County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dixie County
The Dixie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dixie County. It reported 0 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Dixie County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Cross City, 1,816 residents: 32 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Dixie County: the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Dixie County, the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Dixie County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Dixie, the Dixie County Florida Game Commission and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Dixie County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dixie 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.
- Cross City: 32 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 58 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Dixie County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2022, 425 for 2020 and 484 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 0 arrests that year.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dixie County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dixie 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 71 people on an average day, down from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 140 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Dixie County Sheriff's Office at townofgreenwood.org/pt1_type/dixie-county-jail (page title: Dixie County Jail Inmate Search, Visitation, Mugshots | Records Search), phone 352-498-1231, Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 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.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Florida Department of Corrections lists its inmates at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dixie County
An arrest in Dixie County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dixie County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the State Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sao3.org/locations, phone (386) 758-0470).
Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Dixie 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 Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the agency must answer promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests.
- An arrest by the Dixie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 352-498-1231.
- An arrest in Cross City: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Dixie County, the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Dixie County or the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Dixie: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State Attorney, (386) 758-0470, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Dixie County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Dixie County: Cross City. Horseshoe Beach has 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 Dixie County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dixie County each year?
Cross City reported 32 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Dixie County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 0 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dixie County?
Look on the custody page of the Dixie County Sheriff's Office at townofgreenwood.org, or call 352-498-1231. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Dixie County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dixie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dixie County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Dixie County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dixie County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Dixie 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.