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.
Carroll County, Georgia, has about 130,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, six 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 Carroll 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: Carroll County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Carroll County
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Carroll County. It reported 702 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Carroll County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Carrollton, 28,306 residents: 1,131 arrests reported for 2025.
- Villa Rica, 20,095 residents: 819 arrests reported for 2023.
- Temple, 6,406 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bowdon, 2,238 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Zion, 2,054 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whitesburg, 630 residents: 8 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 Bremen Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Carroll County, so its arrests are not broken out for Carroll County here.
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 Each Agency Reports in Carroll 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.
- Carrollton: 1,131 for 2025, 940 for 2024, 901 for 2023, 891 for 2022 and 1,144 for 2021.
- Carroll County Sheriff's Office: 702 for 2025, 429 for 2024, 615 for 2023, 674 for 2022, 563 for 2021 and 392 for 2020.
- Temple: 26 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 29 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 39 for 2021 and 19 for 2020.
- Bowdon: 17 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 9 for 2022 and 10 for 2021.
- Mount Zion: 9 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 13 for 2021 and 10 for 2020.
- Whitesburg: 8 for 2025 and 8 for 2021; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Villa Rica: 819 for 2023, 855 for 2021, 720 for 2020 and 1,124 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,893 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,183 in 2025 against 972 in 2024, up 22 percent.
Through April 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 543 arrests, against 547 in the same months of 2025.
Villa Rica reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Carroll County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Carroll County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
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 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 Carroll County
For Carroll County the place to look is 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).
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 Carroll 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Carrollton, Villa Rica, Temple, Bowdon, Mount Zion or Whitesburg: 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 University of West Georgia or the State Patrol at Villa Rica: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Carroll County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the seven cities in Carroll County: Carrollton, Villa Rica, Temple, Bowdon, Mount Zion and Whitesburg. Roopville 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 Carroll County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Carroll County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Villa Rica (20,095)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Carroll County each year?
Carrollton reported 1,131 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,893 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Carroll County?
Ask the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at carrollcountyga.gov/905/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Carroll County 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 Carroll 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 Carroll County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Carroll 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 carrollcountyga.gov/303/Open-Records-Request.
Is this the official Carroll 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.