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 2023. 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.
Sylvester, Georgia, in Worth 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 Worth 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: Sylvester public records, Worth County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Sylvester
The FBI lists Sylvester with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Sylvester Police Department. It reported 137 arrests for 2023, 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 Worth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 375 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Sylvester 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.
- Sylvester: 137 for 2023, 93 for 2021 and 72 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
Across Worth County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 401 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sylvester Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sylvester 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 2022 the jail held about 24 people, down from about 37 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022 was 23 beds, and it ran at 104 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 Worth County Sheriff's Office at worthcountyboc.com/sheriffs/page/current-inmate-charges-and-bonds (page title: Current Inmate Charges and Bonds | Worth County GA), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Sylvester
For Sylvester the place to look is the case index of the Worth County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=159, phone (229) 776-8205).
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 Sylvester
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 Sylvester police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsylvester.com/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Sylvester), phone (229) 776-8500, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Worth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Worth County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=159, phone (229) 776-8205.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Worth County guide covers every agency in the county: Worth County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sylvester each year?
Sylvester reported 137 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Sylvester booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Worth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sylvester?
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 Sylvester?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sylvester police for its own arrests, the Worth 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 Sylvester 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.