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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Chamblee, Georgia, in DeKalb County, has about 32,000 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 DeKalb 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: Chamblee public records, DeKalb County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Chamblee
The FBI lists Chamblee with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Chamblee Police Department. It reported 585 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 DeKalb County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 35 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in DeKalb County: the Stone Mountain Park Police, the DeKalb County Marshal and DeKalb County School System (other); Agnes Scott College, Emory University and Georgia Piedmont Technical College (campus police); the State Patrol at Metropolitan Traffic Unit, Atlanta (state police).
How Many Arrests Chamblee Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Chamblee: 585 for 2025, 616 for 2024, 667 for 2023, 657 for 2022, 579 for 2021 and 556 for 2020.
Chamblee's 585 arrests in 2025 were down 5 percent from 616 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Chamblee reported 340 arrests, against 333 in the same months of 2025.
Across DeKalb County, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,241 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chamblee Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Chamblee 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 1,920 people on an average day, up from about 1,670 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 3,500 beds, and it is running at 55 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office at dekalbsheriff.com (page title: DeKalb County Jail, IN Inmate Roster, Booking, Arrests, Warrants), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Georgia Department of Corrections lists its inmates at gdc.georgia.gov/offender-info/find-offender.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Chamblee
Whether someone was arrested in Chamblee, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the DeKalb County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dekalbgastatecourt.gov).
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 Chamblee
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Chamblee police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at chambleega.com/police_department/police_reports.php (page title: chamblee), phone 770-986-5005, 4445 Buford Highway, Chamblee, GA 30341, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the DeKalb County Superior Court, through the court records page at dekalbgastatecourt.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dekalbcountyga.gov (page title: Open Records Request | DeKalb County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The DeKalb County guide covers every agency in the county: DeKalb County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chamblee each year?
Chamblee reported 585 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Chamblee booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chamblee?
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 Chamblee?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chamblee police for its own arrests, the DeKalb 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 dekalbcountyga.gov.
Is this the official Chamblee 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.