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.
Hall County, Georgia, has about 222,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hall 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 Hall 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: Hall County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hall County
The Hall County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hall County. It reported 2,141 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:
- Gainesville, 47,712 residents: 1,704 arrests reported for 2025.
- Flowery Branch, 12,292 residents: 205 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oakwood, 6,759 residents: 361 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Braselton Police Department is listed by the FBI across four counties including Hall County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hall County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hall County: the Hall County Marshal (other); the State Patrol at Gainesville (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hall 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.
- Hall County Sheriff's Office: 2,141 for 2024, 2,402 for 2023, 2,280 for 2022, 1,949 for 2021 and 2,545 for 2020.
- Gainesville: 1,704 for 2025, 1,796 for 2024, 1,859 for 2023, 1,620 for 2022, 1,757 for 2021 and 1,517 for 2020.
- Oakwood: 361 for 2024.
- Flowery Branch: 205 for 2025, 200 for 2024, 195 for 2023, 187 for 2022, 212 for 2021 and 98 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 4,498 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 4,137 in 2024 against 4,456 in 2023, down 7.2 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hall County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hall 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 680 people on an average day, down from about 780 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 1,134 beds, and it is running at 60 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office at hallcounty.org/741/Inmate-Population-List (page title: Inmate Population List | Hall County, GA), phone 770-531-6904, 1700 Barber Road Gainesville, GA 30507, 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 Hall County
Whether someone was arrested in Hall County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nejcga.gov/attorney, phone (770) 531-6965).
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 Hall 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 Hall County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 770-531-6904.
- An arrest in Gainesville, Flowery Branch or Oakwood: 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 Hall County Marshal or the State Patrol at Gainesville: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (770) 531-6965, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hallcounty.org/381/Open-Records-Requests (page title: Hall County Sheriff's Office Open Records Requests | Hall County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Hall County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Hall County: Gainesville, Flowery Branch and Oakwood. Lula, Clermont, Gillsville and Rest Haven 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 Hall County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Hall County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Flowery Branch (12,292)
- Oakwood (6,759)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hall County each year?
The Hall County Sheriff's Office reported 2,141 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the four agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 4,498 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hall County?
Look on the custody page of the Hall County Sheriff's Office at hallcounty.org/741/Inmate-Population-List, or call 770-531-6904. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Hall County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hall County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hall 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 Hall County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hall 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 hallcounty.org/381/Open-Records-Requests.
Is this the official Hall 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.