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 28, 2026.
Bartow County, Georgia, has about 118,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies 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 Bartow 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: Bartow County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bartow County
The Bartow County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bartow County. It reported 139 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside six of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Cartersville, 25,082 residents: 1,021 arrests reported for 2025.
- Adairsville, 5,029 residents: 638 arrests reported for 2025.
- Euharlee, 4,139 residents: 85 arrests reported for 2025.
- Emerson, 2,192 residents: 169 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kingston, 1,100 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- White, 633 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Bartow County: Chattahoochee Technical College and Georgia Highlands College (campus police); the State Patrol at Cartersville (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bartow County
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.
- Cartersville: 1,021 for 2025, 959 for 2024, 1,096 for 2023, 1,262 for 2022, 1,235 for 2021 and 463 for 2020.
- Adairsville: 638 for 2025, 616 for 2024, 612 for 2023, 548 for 2022, 446 for 2021 and 307 for 2020.
- Emerson: 169 for 2025, 158 for 2024, 153 for 2023, 199 for 2022, 158 for 2021 and 167 for 2020.
- Euharlee: 85 for 2025, 110 for 2024, 101 for 2023 and 67 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Kingston: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 3 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Bartow County Sheriff's Office: 139 for 2024, 484 for 2023 and 249 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- White: 9 for 2023.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,913 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,913 in 2025 against 1,843 in 2024, up 3.8 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 968 arrests, against 1,186 in the same months of 2025.
Bartow County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bartow County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bartow 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 570 people on an average day, down from about 650 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,253 beds, and it is running at 46 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 Bartow County Sheriff's Office at jailroster.bc-cville.org/NewWorld.InmateInquiry/bartow (page title: Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Bartow County
Whether someone was arrested in Bartow County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Bartow County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Bartow County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bartowcountyga.gov/departments/courts/clerk/index.php, phone 770.387.5025); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bartowcountyga.gov/departments/courts/district_attorney/index.php, phone 770-387-5080).
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 Bartow County
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 Bartow County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cartersville, Adairsville, Euharlee, Emerson, Kingston or White: 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 Chattahoochee Technical College, Georgia Highlands College or the State Patrol at Cartersville: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770-387-5080, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bartow County Superior Court, through the court records page at bartowcountyga.gov, phone 770.387.5025.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bartowcountyga.gov (page title: How To Sumit Open Records Request (FOIA)?).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Bartow County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in Bartow County: Cartersville, Adairsville, Euharlee, Emerson, Kingston and White. Taylorsville has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bartow County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bartow County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Cartersville (25,082)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bartow County each year?
Cartersville reported 1,021 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,913 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bartow County?
Look on the custody page of the Bartow County Sheriff's Office at jailroster.bc-cville.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Bartow County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bartow County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bartow 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 Bartow County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bartow 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 bartowcountyga.gov.
Is this the official Bartow 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.