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 October 9, 2026.
Grady County, Georgia, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Grady County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one other agency. 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 Grady 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: Grady County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Grady County
The Grady County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Grady County. It reported 416 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Grady County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Cairo, 10,057 residents: 431 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whigham, 388 residents.
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 one more agency in Grady County: Grady County Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Grady 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.
- Cairo: 431 for 2025, 433 for 2024, 394 for 2023, 461 for 2022, 471 for 2021 and 217 for 2020.
- Grady County Sheriff's Office: 416 for 2025, 351 for 2021, 324 for 2020 and 291 for 2019; 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 847 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 431 in 2025 against 433 in 2024, down 0.5 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 538 arrests, against 416 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Grady County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Grady 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 86 people, down from about 98 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 99 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 Grady County Sheriff's Office at gradycountyga.gov/public-safety/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Grady County, GA), phone (229) 377-1512, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Grady County
Whether someone was arrested in Grady County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Grady County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gradycountyga.gov/government/courts, phone (229) 377-2912); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pacga.org/find-your-prosecutor/county/grady, phone 229-377-1200).
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 Grady 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 Grady County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (229) 377-1512.
- An arrest in Cairo or Whigham: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Grady County Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 229-377-1200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Grady County Superior Court, through the court records page at gradycountyga.gov/government/courts, phone (229) 377-2912.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
The other Grady County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Grady County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Grady County: Cairo and Whigham.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Grady County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Grady County each year?
Cairo reported 431 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 847 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Grady County?
Ask the Grady County Sheriff's Office at (229) 377-1512; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gradycountyga.gov.
Where are people arrested in Grady County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grady County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Grady 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 Grady County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Grady 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.
Is this the official Grady 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.