Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 23, 2026.
Alpharetta, Georgia, in Fulton County, has about 67,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Fulton County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Alpharetta public records, Fulton County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Alpharetta
The FBI lists Alpharetta with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Alpharetta Police Department. It reported 742 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 135 arrests for 2023.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Fulton County: Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College and five more (campus police); Georgia Department of Transportation, Office of Investigations, Georgia World Congress and the State Board of Workers Compensation Fraud Investigation Division (state agency); the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the Fulton County Marshal, Fulton County School System and one more (other); the State Patrol at Hapeville (state police).
How Many Arrests Alpharetta Reports
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.
- Alpharetta: 742 for 2025, 639 for 2024, 827 for 2023, 918 for 2022, 816 for 2021 and 553 for 2020.
Alpharetta's 742 arrests in 2025 were up 16 percent from 639 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Alpharetta reported 493 arrests, against 435 in the same months of 2025.
Across Fulton County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 21,249 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Alpharetta Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Alpharetta 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.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 1,900 people, down from about 3,090 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 2,312 beds, and it ran at 82 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 Fulton County Sheriff's Office at fultoncountyga.gov/inside-fulton-county/fulton-county-departments/s... (page title: Jail), phone (877) 994-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Georgia Department of Corrections lists its inmates at gdc.georgia.gov/offender-info/find-offender.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Alpharetta
An arrest in Alpharetta can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Fulton County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fultonclerk.org/504/Find-a-Case); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at fultoncountyga.gov/districtattorney).
Georgia is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: Georgia Felon Search lets anyone check felony convictions online by name, through the Georgia Crime Information Center. 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 Alpharetta
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 Georgia Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge for search, retrieval and copying after the first quarter hour.
- An arrest by the agency that reports for Alpharetta: its own records unit.
- An arrest by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (877) 994-8463.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fulton County Superior Court, through the court records page at fultonclerk.org/504/Find-a-Case.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fultoncountyga.gov (page title: Request For Public Records Form).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Fulton County guide covers every agency in the county: Fulton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Alpharetta each year?
Alpharetta reported 742 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Alpharetta?
Ask the Fulton County Sheriff's Office at (877) 994-8463; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at fultoncountyga.gov.
Where are people arrested in Alpharetta booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Alpharetta?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Georgia Crime Information Center: Georgia Felon Search lets anyone check felony convictions online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Georgia Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Alpharetta?
From the agency that made the arrest: the agency that reports for Alpharetta for its own arrests, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Georgia Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fultoncountyga.gov.
Is this the official Alpharetta website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.