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 30, 2026.
Brooks County, Georgia, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Brooks County Sheriff's Office and two city 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 Brooks 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: Brooks County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Brooks County
The Brooks County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Brooks County. It reported 250 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Brooks County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Quitman, 4,061 residents: 179 arrests reported for 2025.
- Morven, 506 residents: 1,152 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 Pavo Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Brooks County, so its arrests are not broken out for Brooks County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Brooks 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.
- Morven: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Brooks County Sheriff's Office: 250 for 2025, 187 for 2023, 319 for 2022, 407 for 2021, 373 for 2020 and 589 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Quitman: 179 for 2025.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,581 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,152 in 2025 against 1,152 in 2024.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brooks County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brooks 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.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 63 people, up from about 50 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 120 beds, and it ran at 53 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 Brooks County Sheriff's Office at brookssheriff.com (page title: Brooks Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Brooks County
For Brooks County the place to look is the case index of the Brooks County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at brookscountyga.gov/county-courts (page title: County Courts | Brooks County Board of Commissioners), belongs to a lower court, not to the Brooks County Superior Court.
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 Brooks 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 Brooks County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Quitman or Morven: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Brooks County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at brookscountyga.gov/county-courts, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at brookhavenga.gov/223/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Brookhaven, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Brooks County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Brooks County: Quitman and Morven.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Brooks County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brooks County each year?
Morven reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,581 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brooks County?
Ask the Brooks County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at brookssheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Brooks County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brooks County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brooks 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 Brooks County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brooks 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 brookhavenga.gov/223/Open-Records-Request.
Is this the official Brooks 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.