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 October 2, 2026.
Lovejoy, Georgia, in Clayton County, has about 13,000 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 Clayton 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: Lovejoy public records, Clayton County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lovejoy
The FBI lists Lovejoy with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lovejoy Police Department. It reported 1,152 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 Clayton County Police Department is the county agency. It reported 5,866 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clayton County: Clayton State University (campus police); Clayton County Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Lovejoy 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.
- Lovejoy: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Through September 2026, Lovejoy reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Across Clayton County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,499 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lovejoy Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lovejoy 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 2024 the jail held about 1,380 people, down from about 1,930 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 1,426 beds, and it ran at 97 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Clayton County Police Department at claytonsheriff.com/clayton-county-inmate-search (page title: Clayton County Jail Inmate Search: Bookings & Records), phone (770) 477-4441, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Lovejoy
Whether someone was arrested in Lovejoy, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Clayton County Police Department described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Clayton County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at weba.claytoncountyga.gov/casinqsvr/htdocs/index.shtml).
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 Lovejoy
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 Lovejoy police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityoflovejoy.com/187/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Lovejoy, GA), phone (678) 610-9748, 2296 Talmadge Rd. Mailing address : P.O. Box 220, Lovejoy, GA 30250, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Clayton County Police Department: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (770) 477-4441.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clayton County Superior Court, through the court records page at weba.claytoncountyga.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Clayton County guide covers every agency in the county: Clayton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lovejoy each year?
Lovejoy reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Lovejoy booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clayton County Police Department; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lovejoy?
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 Lovejoy?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lovejoy police for its own arrests, the Clayton County Police Department for the sheriff's. Under the Georgia Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Lovejoy 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.