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.
Coffee County, Georgia, has about 44,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office, three 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 Coffee 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: Coffee County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Coffee County
The Coffee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Coffee County. It reported 894 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Douglas, 11,828 residents: 248 arrests reported for 2025.
- Nicholls, 2,909 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Broxton, 1,076 residents: 10 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 Coffee County: Coffee County Board of Education (other); South Georgia State College (campus police); the State Patrol at Douglas (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Coffee 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.
- Nicholls: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Douglas: 248 for 2025, 146 for 2024, 94 for 2023 and 95 for 2022.
- Broxton: 10 for 2025, 27 for 2024, 33 for 2023, 29 for 2022 and 23 for 2021.
- Coffee County Sheriff's Office: 894 for 2024, 896 for 2023, 742 for 2022 and 223 for 2021.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,410 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,410 in 2025 against 1,325 in 2024, up 6.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 810 arrests, against 807 in the same months of 2025.
Coffee County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (6 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Coffee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Coffee 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 390 people, up from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 448 beds, and it ran at 86 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office at coffeesheriffga.gov (page title: CCSO), 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 Coffee County
Whether someone was arrested in Coffee County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Coffee County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at georgiacourts.gov/eaccess-court-records); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at coffeecounty-ga.gov/departments/solicitors.php).
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 Coffee 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Douglas, Nicholls or Broxton: 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 Coffee County Board of Education, South Georgia State College or the State Patrol at Douglas: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Coffee County Superior Court, through the court records page at georgiacourts.gov/eaccess-court-records.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at coffeecounty-ga.gov (page title: Open Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Coffee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Coffee County: Douglas, Nicholls and Broxton. Ambrose 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 Coffee County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Coffee County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Douglas (11,828)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Coffee County each year?
Nicholls reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,410 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Coffee County?
Ask the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at coffeesheriffga.gov.
Where are people arrested in Coffee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Coffee 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 Coffee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Coffee 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 coffeecounty-ga.gov.
Is this the official Coffee 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.