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 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Jackson County, Florida, has about 50,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and seven 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 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, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida 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 289 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Jackson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Marianna, 7,975 residents: 119 arrests reported for 2025.
- Graceville, 2,219 residents.
- Sneads, 1,780 residents.
- Cottondale, 879 residents: 1,152 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 Jackson County: the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Jackson County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Jackson, the Jackson County Florida Game Commission, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Jackson County and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Jackson County (state police); the Jackson County School District (other).
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.
- Cottondale: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Jackson County Sheriff's Office: 289 for 2025 and 248 for 2024.
- Marianna: 119 for 2025 and 178 for 2024.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,560 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,560 in 2025 against 1,578 in 2024, down 1.1 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 989 arrests, against 1,037 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jackson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Jackson 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 170 people on an average day, down from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 326 beds, and it ran at 80 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 23, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Florida Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Jackson County
An arrest in Jackson County can be traced in three 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 jacksonclerk.com/court-services/search-court-records); the State Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at jud14.flcourts.org/state-attorney).
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 Jackson County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Jackson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Marianna, Graceville, Sneads or Cottondale: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Jackson County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Jackson or the Highway Patrol in Jackson County: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jackson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at jacksonclerk.com.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jacksoncountyfl.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | Jackson County, Florida).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Jackson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the 11 cities in Jackson County: Marianna, Graceville, Sneads and Cottondale. Malone, Grand Ridge, Greenwood, Alford, Jacob City, Campbellton and Bascom 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:
- Marianna (7,975)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jackson County each year?
Cottondale reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,560 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 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 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 Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jacksoncountyfl.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.