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.
Emanuel County, Georgia, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Emanuel County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Emanuel 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: Emanuel County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Emanuel County
The Emanuel County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Emanuel County. It reported 114 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Swainsboro, 7,556 residents: 112 arrests reported for 2023.
- Twin City, 1,767 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2021.
- Oak Park, 512 residents.
- Stillmore, 447 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 Adrian Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Emanuel County, so its arrests are not broken out for Emanuel County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Emanuel County: East Georgia State College (campus police); the State Patrol at Swainsboro (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Emanuel 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.
- Stillmore: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Emanuel County Sheriff's Office: 114 for 2024.
- Swainsboro: 112 for 2023, 142 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 61 for 2020.
- Twin City: 11 for 2021.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,266 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 1,152 in 2024 against 1,146 in 2023, up 0.5 percent.
Swainsboro reported only part of 2024 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Emanuel County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Emanuel 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 59 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 62 beds, and it ran at 95 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Emanuel County Sheriff's Office at emanuelcosheriff.com/current-inmates (page title: Current Inmates | Emanuel County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Emanuel County
For Emanuel County the place to look is the custody page of the Emanuel County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
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 Emanuel 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 Emanuel County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Swainsboro, Twin City, Oak Park or Stillmore: 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 East Georgia State College or the State Patrol at Swainsboro: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at emanuelco-ga.gov/476/Open-Records (page title: Open Records in Emanuel County | Emanuel County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Emanuel County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the seven cities in Emanuel County: Swainsboro, Twin City, Oak Park and Stillmore. Garfield, Nunez and Summertown have 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 Emanuel County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Emanuel County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Swainsboro (7,556)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Emanuel County each year?
Stillmore reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Emanuel County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,266 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Emanuel County?
Look on the custody page of the Emanuel County Sheriff's Office at emanuelcosheriff.com/current-inmates. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Emanuel County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Emanuel County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Emanuel 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 Emanuel County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Emanuel 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 emanuelco-ga.gov/476/Open-Records.
Is this the official Emanuel 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.