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.
Perry, Georgia, in Houston County, has about 25,000 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 Houston 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: Perry public records, Houston County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Perry
The FBI lists Perry with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Perry Police Department. It reported 510 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 Houston County Sheriff's Office is the county agency.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Houston County: the State Patrol at Perry (state police).
How Many Arrests Perry 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.
- Perry: 510 for 2025, 624 for 2024, 615 for 2023 and 632 for 2022.
Perry's 510 arrests in 2025 were down 18 percent from 624 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Perry reported 145 arrests, against 144 in the same months of 2025.
Across Houston County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,562 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Perry Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Perry 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 580 people on an average day, up from about 450 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 665 beds, and it is running at 87 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 Houston County Sheriff's Office at houstoncountyga.gov/government/sheriff.cms (page title: Sheriff | Houston County), phone 478-542-2125, 202 Carl Vinson Parkway Warner Robins, GA 31088, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Perry
Whether someone was arrested in Perry, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Houston County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at houstoncountyga.gov/online-services/state-court-state-search.cms); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at houstoncountyga.gov/government/district-attorney.cms, phone (478) 218-4810).
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 Perry
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 Perry police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at perry-ga.gov/police-department/records-reports (page title: Records & Reports | City of Perry), phone (478) 988-2825, 1207 Washington Street Perry, GA 31069, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Houston County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 478-542-2125.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (478) 218-4810, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Houston County Superior Court, through the court records page at houstoncountyga.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Houston County guide covers every agency in the county: Houston County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Perry each year?
Perry reported 510 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Perry?
Ask the Houston County Sheriff's Office at 478-542-2125; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at houstoncountyga.gov/government/sheriff.cms.
Where are people arrested in Perry booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Houston County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Perry?
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 Perry?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Perry police for its own arrests, the Houston County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Georgia Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Perry 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.