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.
Snellville, Georgia, in Gwinnett County, has about 22,000 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 Gwinnett 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: Snellville public records, Gwinnett County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Snellville
The FBI lists Snellville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Snellville Police Department. It reported 802 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 Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 440 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Gwinnett County: Gwinnett County Public Schools (other); the State Patrol at Lawrenceville (state police); Georgia Gwinnett College and Gwinnett Technical College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Snellville 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.
- Snellville: 802 for 2025, 839 for 2024, 1,043 for 2023, 984 for 2022, 939 for 2021 and 1,008 for 2020.
Snellville's 802 arrests in 2025 were down 4.4 percent from 839 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Snellville reported 468 arrests, against 475 in the same months of 2025.
Across Gwinnett County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11,748 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Snellville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Snellville 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 2025 the jail held about 600 people, down from about 2,090 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 650 beds, and it ran at 93 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office at gwinnettcounty.com/government/departments/sheriff/inmate-services (page title: Jail and Inmate Services | Gwinnett County | Gwinnett), 2900 University Parkway Lawrenceville, GA 30043, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Georgia Department of Corrections lists its inmates at gdc.georgia.gov/offender-info/find-offender.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Snellville
Whether someone was arrested in Snellville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gwinnett County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gwinnettcourts.com/casesearch, phone 770-619-6100); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at gwinnettcounty.com/government/departments/district-attorney, phone 770.822.8400).
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 Snellville
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 Snellville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at snellville.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/police/scpa-application-... (page title: SNELLVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT APPLICATION FOR), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770.822.8400, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gwinnett County Superior Court, through the court records page at gwinnettcourts.com/casesearch, phone 770-619-6100.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at gwinnettcounty.com (page title: Gwinnett County Open Records Requests | Gwinnett County | Gwinnett).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Gwinnett County guide covers every agency in the county: Gwinnett County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Snellville each year?
Snellville reported 802 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Snellville?
Ask the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gwinnettcounty.com.
Where are people arrested in Snellville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Snellville?
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 Snellville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Snellville police for its own arrests, the Gwinnett 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 gwinnettcounty.com.
Is this the official Snellville 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.