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

Who Makes Arrests in Madison

The FBI lists Madison with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Madison Police Department. It reported 72 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Morgan County: the State Patrol at Madison (state police).

How Many Arrests Madison 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.

• Madison: 72 for 2025, 109 for 2022, 99 for 2021, 119 for 2020 and 190 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Madison Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Madison 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 76 people on an average day, down from about 78 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 192 beds, and it is running at 40 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office at morgancountyga.gov/159/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Morgan County, GA), phone (706) 342-1507, 1380 Monticello Road Madison, GA 30650, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Madison

Whether someone was arrested in Madison, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Morgan County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov/208/Court-Services); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at morgancountyga.gov/209/Assistant-District-Attorney, phone (706) 342-5071).

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 Madison

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 Madison police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at madisonga.com/156/Police (page title: Madison Police Department | Madison, GA), phone (706) 342-1275, 160 N Main Street Suite 300 Madison, GA 30650, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (706) 342-1507.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (706) 342-5071, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Morgan County Superior Court, through the court records page at morgancountyga.gov/208/Court-Services.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov (page title: Form Center, Open Records Request Form).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Madison each year?

Madison reported 72 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

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

Ask the Morgan County Sheriff's Office at (706) 342-1507; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov/159/Sheriffs-Office.

Where are people arrested in Madison booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Madison?

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 Madison?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Madison police for its own arrests, the Morgan 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 morgancountyga.gov.

Is this the official Madison 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.