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.
Fayetteville, Georgia, in Fayette County, has about 20,000 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 Fayette 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: Fayetteville public records, Fayette County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Fayetteville
The FBI lists Fayetteville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Fayetteville Police Department. It reported 524 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 Fayette County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 782 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Fayette County: the Fayette County Marshal (other).
How Many Arrests Fayetteville 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.
- Fayetteville: 524 for 2025, 598 for 2024, 633 for 2023, 489 for 2022, 367 for 2021 and 561 for 2020.
Fayetteville's 524 arrests in 2025 were down 12 percent from 598 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Fayetteville reported 400 arrests, against 254 in the same months of 2025.
Across Fayette County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,182 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fayetteville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fayetteville 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 390 people on an average day, up from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 554 beds, and it is running at 70 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Fayetteville
For Fayetteville the place to look is the case index of the Fayette County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fayetteclerk.com/OnlineServices).
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 Fayetteville
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 Fayetteville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at fayetteville-ga.gov/415/Police-Reports (page title: Police Reports | Fayetteville, GA), phone 770-461-4441, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Fayette County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fayette County Superior Court, through the court records page at fayetteclerk.com/OnlineServices.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fayettecountyga.gov (page title: Fayette County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Fayette County guide covers every agency in the county: Fayette County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fayetteville each year?
Fayetteville reported 524 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Fayetteville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fayette County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fayetteville?
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 Fayetteville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fayetteville police for its own arrests, the Fayette 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 fayettecountyga.gov.
Is this the official Fayetteville 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.