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 September 26, 2026.
Cumming, Georgia, in Forsyth County, has about 10,000 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 Forsyth 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: Cumming public records, Forsyth County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumming
The FBI lists Cumming with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cumming Police Department. It reported 1,152 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 Forsyth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,289 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Forsyth County: Forsyth County Fire Investigation Unit (other).
How Many Arrests Cumming 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.
- Cumming: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Through September 2026, Cumming reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Across Forsyth County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,441 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumming Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cumming 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 310 people on an average day, down from about 330 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 608 beds, and it is running at 51 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Georgia Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at gdc.georgia.gov/offender-info/find-offender.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cumming
An arrest in Cumming can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Forsyth County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at forsythco.com/government/departments/district-attorneys-office, phone (770) 781-2170).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at forsythcourts.com (page title: Forsyth County Courts), belongs to a lower court, not to the Forsyth County Superior Court.
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 Cumming
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 Cumming police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofcumming.net/public-information (page title: Public Information | City of Cumming), phone 770-781-2010, 100 Main Street, Cumming, GA 30040, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (770) 781-2170, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Forsyth County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at forsythcourts.com, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at forsythco.com/government/open-records-request (page title: Open Records Request | Forsyth County).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Forsyth County guide covers every agency in the county: Forsyth County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumming each year?
Cumming reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cumming booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cumming?
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 Cumming?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumming police for its own arrests, the Forsyth 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 forsythco.com/government/open-records-request.
Is this the official Cumming 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.