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 29, 2026.
Milledgeville, Georgia, in Baldwin County, has about 17,000 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 Baldwin 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: Milledgeville public records, Baldwin County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Milledgeville
The FBI lists Milledgeville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Milledgeville Police Department. It reported 429 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 Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 735 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Baldwin County: the State Patrol at Milledgeville (state police); Georgia Military College and Georgia College and State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Milledgeville 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.
- Milledgeville: 429 for 2025, 551 for 2024, 557 for 2023, 584 for 2022, 533 for 2021 and 502 for 2020.
Milledgeville's 429 arrests in 2025 were down 22 percent from 551 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Milledgeville reported 267 arrests, against 201 in the same months of 2025.
Across Baldwin County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,164 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Milledgeville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Milledgeville 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 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 335 beds, and it is running at 86 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 Baldwin County Sheriff's Office at baldwinsheriff.com (page title: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office), phone 478-445-5102, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 29, 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 Milledgeville
Whether someone was arrested in Milledgeville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Baldwin County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=5, phone (478) 445-4007); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ocmulgeeda.com/baldwin, phone (478) 445-5261).
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 Milledgeville
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 Milledgeville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at milledgevillepdga.gov/records-division.html (page title: Milledgeville Police Department), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 478-445-5102.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (478) 445-5261, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Baldwin County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=5, phone (478) 445-4007.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at baldwincountyal.nextrequest.com/requests/new (page title: NextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Baldwin County guide covers every agency in the county: Baldwin County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Milledgeville each year?
Milledgeville reported 429 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Milledgeville?
Ask the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office at 478-445-5102; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at baldwinsheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Milledgeville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Milledgeville?
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 Milledgeville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Milledgeville police for its own arrests, the Baldwin 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 baldwincountyal.nextrequest.com/requests/new.
Is this the official Milledgeville 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.