Villa Rica Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Villa Rica

The FBI lists Villa Rica with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Villa Rica Police Department. It reported 819 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 702 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Carroll County: the University of West Georgia (campus police); the State Patrol at Villa Rica (state police).

How Many Arrests Villa Rica 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.

• Villa Rica: 819 for 2023, 855 for 2021, 720 for 2020 and 1,124 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.

Across Carroll County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,893 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Villa Rica Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Villa Rica 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 520 people on an average day, up from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 644 beds, and it is running at 80 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at carrollcountyga.gov/905/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Carroll County, GA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Villa Rica

An arrest in Villa Rica can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Carroll County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at carrollcountyga.gov/193/Clerk-of-Court, phone 770-830-5830); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pacga.org/find-your-prosecutor/county/carroll, phone 770-830-5908).

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 Villa Rica

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 Villa Rica police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at villarica.gov/police/chiefs_office/reports.php (page title: City of Villa Rica, GA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770-830-5908, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Carroll County Superior Court, through the court records page at carrollcountyga.gov/193/Clerk-of-Court, phone 770-830-5830.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at carrollcountyga.gov/303/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Carroll County, GA).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.

The Carroll County guide covers every agency in the county: Carroll County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Villa Rica each year?

Villa Rica reported 819 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Villa Rica?

Ask the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at carrollcountyga.gov/905/Sheriffs-Office.

Where are people arrested in Villa Rica booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Villa Rica?

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 Villa Rica?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Villa Rica police for its own arrests, the Carroll 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 carrollcountyga.gov/303/Open-Records-Request.

Is this the official Villa Rica 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.