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 on September 23, 2026.
Suwanee, Georgia, in Gwinnett County, has about 23,000 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: Suwanee public records, Gwinnett County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Suwanee
The FBI lists Suwanee with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Suwanee Police Department. It reported 628 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 Suwanee 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.
- Suwanee: 628 for 2025, 822 for 2024, 773 for 2023, 266 for 2022 and 241 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Suwanee's 628 arrests in 2025 were down 24 percent from 822 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Suwanee reported 184 arrests, against 250 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 Suwanee Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Suwanee 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 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 Suwanee
An arrest in Suwanee can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Suwanee
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 agency that reports for Suwanee: its own records unit.
- 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 Suwanee each year?
Suwanee reported 628 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Suwanee?
Ask the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gwinnettcounty.com.
Where are people arrested in Suwanee 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 Suwanee?
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 Suwanee?
From the agency that made the arrest: the agency that reports for Suwanee 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 Suwanee 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.