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 October 2, 2026.
Social Circle, Georgia, in Walton County, has about 5,400 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 Walton 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: Social Circle public records, Walton County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Social Circle
The FBI lists Social Circle with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Social Circle Police Department. It reported 70 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 Walton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,008 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Social Circle 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.
- Social Circle: 70 for 2025, 40 for 2022, 25 for 2021, 41 for 2020 and 133 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Through July 2026, Social Circle reported 26 arrests, against 46 in the same months of 2025.
Across Walton County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,592 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Social Circle Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Social Circle 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 600 people on an average day, up from about 450 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 869 beds, and it is running at 70 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 Walton County Sheriff's Office at waltoncountyga.org (page title: Walton County, GA, Sheriff Office, Jails, Inmate Search), phone 770-267-1422, 1425 South Madison Avenue, Monroe, GA 30655, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 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 Social Circle
Whether someone was arrested in Social Circle, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Walton County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Walton County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at waltoncountyga.gov/317/Criminal-Cases, phone 770-267-1349).
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 Social Circle
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 Social Circle police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at socialcirclega.gov/departments/police (page title: Police | Social Circle, GA), phone 770-464-2366, 138 E Hightower Trail Mailing Address: P.O. Box 310 Social Circle GA 30025, Monday -Friday from 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Walton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 770-267-1422.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Walton County Superior Court, through the court records page at waltoncountyga.gov/317/Criminal-Cases, phone 770-267-1349.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at waltoncountyga.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Walton County guide covers every agency in the county: Walton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Social Circle each year?
Social Circle reported 70 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Social Circle booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Walton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Social Circle?
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 Social Circle?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Social Circle police for its own arrests, the Walton 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 waltoncountyga.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Social Circle 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.