Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 29, 2026.
Baldwin County, Georgia, has about 44,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and three campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Baldwin County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Baldwin County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Baldwin County
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Baldwin County. It reported 735 arrests for 2025.
One city in Baldwin County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Milledgeville, 16,664 residents: 429 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Baldwin County: the State Patrol at Milledgeville (state police); Georgia Military College and Georgia College and State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Baldwin County
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.
- Baldwin County Sheriff's Office: 735 for 2025, 655 for 2024, 744 for 2023, 516 for 2022, 491 for 2021 and 551 for 2020.
- Milledgeville: 429 for 2025, 551 for 2024, 557 for 2023, 584 for 2022, 533 for 2021 and 502 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,164 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,164 in 2025 against 1,206 in 2024, down 3.5 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 583 arrests, against 581 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Baldwin County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Baldwin County 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 290 people on an average day, up from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 335 beds, and it is running at 86 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 Baldwin County Sheriff's Office at baldwinsheriff.com (page title: Baldwin County Sheriff's Office), phone 478-445-5102, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 29, 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 Baldwin County
Whether someone was arrested in Baldwin County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Baldwin 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=5, phone (478) 445-4007); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ocmulgeeda.com/baldwin, phone (478) 445-5261).
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 Baldwin County
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 Baldwin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 478-445-5102.
- An arrest in Milledgeville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the State Patrol at Milledgeville, Georgia Military College or Georgia College and State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (478) 445-5261, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Baldwin County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=5, phone (478) 445-4007.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at baldwincountyal.nextrequest.com/requests/new (page title: NextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Baldwin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Milledgeville, the one city in Baldwin County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Baldwin County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Baldwin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Milledgeville (16,664)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Baldwin County each year?
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office reported 735 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,164 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Baldwin County?
Ask the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office at 478-445-5102; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at baldwinsheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Baldwin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Baldwin County?
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 Baldwin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Georgia Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at baldwincountyal.nextrequest.com/requests/new.
Is this the official Baldwin County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.