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

Who Makes Arrests in Hiram

The FBI lists Hiram with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hiram Police Department. It reported 326 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 Paulding County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,154 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Paulding County: the Paulding County Marshal (other).

How Many Arrests Hiram 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.

• Hiram: 326 for 2025, 262 for 2022 and 381 for 2021; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.

Across Paulding County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,674 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Hiram Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hiram 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 290 people on an average day, up from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 631 beds, and it is running at 46 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Paulding County Sheriff's Office at paulding.gov/1177/Visitation-and-Communication (page title: Jail Visitation and Bonding | Paulding County, GA), phone (770) 443-3030, 90 Constitution Boulevard Dallas, GA 30132, 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 Hiram

Whether someone was arrested in Hiram, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Paulding County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov/1318/CASE-SEARCH, phone 770 443-7527); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at paulding.gov/139/District-Attorney, phone 770-443-7561).

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 Hiram

The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Hiram police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofhiramga.gov/departments/police/index.php (page title: Welcome to Hiram), phone 770-943-3087, 217 Main St. Hiram, GA 30141, Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (770) 443-3030.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770-443-7561, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Paulding County Superior Court, through the court records page at paulding.gov/1318/CASE-SEARCH, phone 770 443-7527.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov/566/Request-for-Public-Records (page title: Request for Public Records | Paulding County, GA).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Hiram each year?

Hiram reported 326 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

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

Ask the Paulding County Sheriff's Office at (770) 443-3030; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov.

Where are people arrested in Hiram booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Hiram?

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 Hiram?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Hiram police for its own arrests, the Paulding 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 paulding.gov/566/Request-for-Public-Records.

Is this the official Hiram 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.