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 on September 23, 2026.
Bulloch County, Georgia, has about 85,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and two 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 Bulloch 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: Bulloch County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bulloch County
The Bulloch County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bulloch County. It reported 905 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Bulloch County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Statesboro, 35,226 residents: 1,188 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brooklet, 2,063 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Portal, 678 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 FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Bulloch County: Georgia Southern University (campus police); the State Patrol at Statesboro (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bulloch 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.
- Statesboro: 1,188 for 2025, 1,178 for 2024, 1,097 for 2023, 1,068 for 2022 and 1,124 for 2021.
- Portal: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Bulloch County Sheriff's Office: 905 for 2025 and 676 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Brooklet: 9 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 2 for 2023 and 8 for 2022.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,254 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,349 in 2025 against 2,334 in 2024, up 0.6 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,643 arrests, against 1,637 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bulloch County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bulloch 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 360 people on an average day, down from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 450 beds, and it is running at 81 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 Bulloch County Sheriff's Office at bullochsheriff.com (page title: Bulloch County 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 Bulloch County
Whether someone was arrested in Bulloch County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Bulloch County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bullochcountyclerkofcourt.org/superior-court-criminal, phone 912-764-9009); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pacga.org/find-your-prosecutor/county/bulloch, phone 912-489-6622).
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 Bulloch 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 Bulloch County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Statesboro, Brooklet or Portal: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Georgia Southern University or the State Patrol at Statesboro: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 912-489-6622, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bulloch County Superior Court, through the court records page at bullochcountyclerkofcourt.org, phone 912-764-9009.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bullochcountyclerkofcourt.org/copy-requests (page title: Request Court Records | Bulloch County Clerk of Courts).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Bulloch County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Bulloch County: Statesboro, Brooklet and Portal. Register 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 Bulloch County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bulloch County each year?
Statesboro reported 1,188 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,254 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bulloch County?
Ask the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bullochsheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Bulloch County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bulloch 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 Bulloch County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bulloch 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 bullochcountyclerkofcourt.org/copy-requests.
Is this the official Bulloch 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.