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

Who Makes Arrests in Oakwood

The FBI lists Oakwood with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Oakwood Police Department. It reported 361 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Hall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,141 arrests for 2024.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hall County: the Hall County Marshal (other); the State Patrol at Gainesville (state police).

How Many Arrests Oakwood 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.

• Oakwood: 361 for 2024.

Across Hall County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 4,498 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Oakwood Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Oakwood 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 680 people on an average day, down from about 780 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,134 beds, and it is running at 60 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office at hallcounty.org/741/Inmate-Population-List (page title: Inmate Population List | Hall County, GA), phone 770-531-6904, 1700 Barber Road Gainesville, GA 30507, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.

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 Oakwood

An arrest in Oakwood can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nejcga.gov/attorney, phone (770) 531-6965).

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 Oakwood

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 Oakwood police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofoakwood.net/city_services/police/police_forms.php (page title: The City of Oakwood, GA), phone 770-534-2364, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Hall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 770-531-6904.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (770) 531-6965, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hallcounty.org/381/Open-Records-Requests (page title: Hall County Sheriff's Office Open Records Requests | Hall County, GA).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Oakwood each year?

Oakwood reported 361 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.

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

Look on the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office at hallcounty.org/741/Inmate-Population-List, or call 770-531-6904. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in Oakwood booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Oakwood?

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 Oakwood?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Oakwood police for its own arrests, the Hall 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 hallcounty.org/381/Open-Records-Requests.

Is this the official Oakwood 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.