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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Cumming, Georgia, in Forsyth County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Georgia the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of Superior Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Georgia Crime Information Center is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Cumming is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Cumming public records, Forsyth County criminal records, Cumming arrest records, Cumming warrants, Cumming court records, Cumming traffic tickets, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Forsyth County Superior Court
In Georgia the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Cumming are heard by the Forsyth County Superior Court, which hears felonies, divorces, land title cases and civil cases without a dollar limit; the State Court and Magistrate Court take misdemeanors and traffic cases in the State Court where the county has one, otherwise in the Probate Court; small claims and warrants in the Magistrate Court, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court.
For Forsyth County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at forsythcourts.com (page title: Forsyth County Courts), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the State Court and Magistrate Court, not to the Forsyth County Superior Court.
Georgia has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Georgia Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at gbi.georgia.gov/services/obtaining-criminal-history-record-informat....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Cumming
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Cumming (filed by the FBI as Cumming Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Cumming: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Forsyth County: Forsyth County Fire Investigation Unit (other agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the two agencies in Forsyth County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,441 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Cumming arrest records.
The District Attorney for Forsyth County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Forsyth County become charges and files them in the Forsyth County Superior Court or the State Court and Magistrate Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at forsythco.com/government/departments/district-attorneys-office (page title: District Attorney's Office | Forsyth County), phone (770) 781-2170, Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Cumming
Registered sex offenders living in Cumming are listed on the Georgia Sex Offender Registry, run by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at state.sor.gbi.ga.gov/sort_public. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff keeps the local list.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Forsyth County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Georgia Open Records Act a county office must answer a request within 3 business days, and it may charge for search, retrieval and copying after the first quarter hour. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at forsythco.com/government/open-records-request (page title: Open Records Request | Forsyth County).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal 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.
Can I search Cumming criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at forsythcourts.com (page title: Forsyth County Courts); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Forsyth County Superior Court.
How do I get my own Georgia criminal history?
A fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Who prosecutes crimes in Cumming?
The District Attorney, reached at (770) 781-2170, which files its cases in the Forsyth County Superior Court or the State Court and Magistrate Court.
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.