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 25, 2026.
Kennesaw, Georgia, in Cobb County, has about 38,000 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 Cobb 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: Kennesaw public records, Cobb County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Kennesaw
The FBI lists Kennesaw with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Kennesaw Police Department. It reported 1,041 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 Cobb County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 250 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Cobb County: Kennesaw State University (campus police); Cobb County Board of Education (other); the State Patrol at Marietta (state police).
How Many Arrests Kennesaw 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.
- Kennesaw: 1,041 for 2025, 942 for 2024, 807 for 2023, 704 for 2022, 433 for 2021 and 597 for 2020.
Kennesaw's 1,041 arrests in 2025 were up 11 percent from 942 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Kennesaw reported 636 arrests, against 588 in the same months of 2025.
Across Cobb County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,533 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kennesaw Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kennesaw 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 2,140 people on an average day, down from about 2,170 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 3,067 beds, and it is running at 70 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 Cobb County Sheriff's Office at cobbsheriff.org/inmates/adult-detention-center/custodial-information (page title: Cobb County Sheriff's Office | Custodial Information:), phone (770) 528-8975, Monday through Friday, during the hours of 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Kennesaw
Whether someone was arrested in Kennesaw, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cobb 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 cobbcounty.gov/district-attorney, phone (770) 528-3080).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at cobbcounty.gov/magistrate-court/magistrate-court-judicial-records-s... (page title: Magistrate Court Judicial Records Search | Cobb County Georgia), phone (770) 528-8900, belongs to a lower court, not to the Cobb 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 Kennesaw
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 Kennesaw police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at kennesaw-ga.gov/police (page title: Kennesaw Police Department | City of Kennesaw), phone 770-422-2505, 3074 Moon Station Rd. Kennesaw, GA 30144, Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM until 5:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cobb County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (770) 528-8975.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (770) 528-3080, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Cobb County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at cobbcounty.gov, phone (770) 528-8900, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cobbcounty.gov (page title: Open Records Requests | Cobb County Georgia).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Cobb County guide covers every agency in the county: Cobb County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kennesaw each year?
Kennesaw reported 1,041 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kennesaw?
Ask the Cobb County Sheriff's Office at (770) 528-8975; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cobbsheriff.org.
Where are people arrested in Kennesaw booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cobb County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kennesaw?
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 Kennesaw?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kennesaw police for its own arrests, the Cobb 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 cobbcounty.gov.
Is this the official Kennesaw 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.