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.
Thomasville, Georgia, in Thomas County, has about 19,000 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 Thomas 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: Thomasville public records, Thomas County arrest records, Georgia arrest records and Georgia inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Thomasville
The FBI lists Thomasville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Thomasville Police Department. It reported 1,063 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 Thomas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 404 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Thomas County: the State Patrol at Thomasville (state police).
How Many Arrests Thomasville 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.
- Thomasville: 1,063 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,163 for 2023, 1,236 for 2022, 1,182 for 2021 and 1,057 for 2020.
Thomasville's 1,063 arrests in 2025 were down 11 percent from 1,188 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Thomasville reported 688 arrests, against 602 in the same months of 2025.
Across Thomas County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,813 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Thomasville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Thomasville 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 460 people on an average day, up from about 190 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 480 beds, and it is running at 96 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 Thomas County Sheriff's Office at thomascountysheriffsoffice.com/jail/jail-roster (page title: Inmates | Thomas County Sheriffs Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 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 Thomasville
Whether someone was arrested in Thomasville, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Thomas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Thomas 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=136, phone (229) 225-4108); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at thomascountyboc.org/courts/district-attorney-s-office, phone (229) 226-6141).
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 Thomasville
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 Thomasville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at crimewatch.net/us/ga/thomas/thomasville-pd/179080/content/faq-0 (page title: FAQ | Thomasville Police Department), phone 229-225-4175, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Thomas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (229) 226-6141, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Thomas County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=136, phone (229) 225-4108.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The Thomas County guide covers every agency in the county: Thomas County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Thomasville each year?
Thomasville reported 1,063 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Thomasville?
Look on the custody page of the Thomas County Sheriff's Office at thomascountysheriffsoffice.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Thomasville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Thomas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Thomasville?
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 Thomasville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Thomasville police for its own arrests, the Thomas 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 Thomasville 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.