Douglas Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Douglas

The FBI lists Douglas with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Douglas Police Department. It reported 248 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 894 arrests for 2024.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Coffee County: Coffee County Board of Education (other); South Georgia State College (campus police); the State Patrol at Douglas (state police).

How Many Arrests Douglas 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.

• Douglas: 248 for 2025, 146 for 2024, 94 for 2023 and 95 for 2022.

Douglas's 248 arrests in 2025 were up 70 percent from 146 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Douglas reported 220 arrests, against 158 in the same months of 2025.

Across Coffee County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,410 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Douglas Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Douglas 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 390 people, up from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 448 beds, and it ran at 86 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office at coffeesheriffga.gov (page title: CCSO), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

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 Douglas

An arrest in Douglas can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Coffee County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at georgiacourts.gov/eaccess-court-records); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at coffeecounty-ga.gov/departments/solicitors.php).

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 Douglas

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 Douglas police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofdouglasga.gov/m/faq?cat=17#question-64 (page title: FAQs | CivicPlus.CMS.FAQ), phone (912) 384-2222, 225 W. Bryan Street Douglas, GA 31533, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• 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 Coffee County Superior Court, through the court records page at georgiacourts.gov/eaccess-court-records.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coffeecounty-ga.gov (page title: Open Records Request).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.

The Coffee County guide covers every agency in the county: Coffee County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Douglas each year?

Douglas reported 248 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Douglas?

Ask the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at coffeesheriffga.gov.

Where are people arrested in Douglas booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Douglas?

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 Douglas?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Douglas police for its own arrests, the Coffee 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 coffeecounty-ga.gov.

Is this the official Douglas 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.