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 30, 2026.
Harris County, Georgia, has about 37,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Harris County Sheriff's Office and four city 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 Harris 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: Harris County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Harris County
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Harris County. It reported 536 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists four cities in Harris County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Hamilton, 1,799 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pine Mountain, 1,288 residents: 18 arrests reported for 2025.
- Waverly Hall, 664 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Shiloh, 429 residents: 14 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 West Point Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Harris County, so its arrests are not broken out for Harris County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Harris 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.
- Pine Mountain: 18 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 49 for 2022, 99 for 2021 and 42 for 2020.
- Shiloh: 14 for 2025, 66 for 2024, 7 for 2021 and 19 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hamilton: 6 for 2025, 12 for 2024 and 7 for 2023.
- Waverly Hall: 0 for 2025 and 4 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Harris County Sheriff's Office: 536 for 2023, 335 for 2022 and 290 for 2021.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 38 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 38 in 2025 against 130 in 2024, down 71 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 13 arrests, against 23 in the same months of 2025.
Harris County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Harris County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Harris 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 90 people on an average day, up from about 58 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 109 beds, and it is running at 83 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 Harris County Sheriff's Office at harriscountysheriff.org/inmateSearch (page title: Harris 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 Harris County
An arrest in Harris County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Harris County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Harris County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at harriscountyga.gov/clerk-of-superior-court-2, phone 706-628-4944); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at harriscountyga.gov/district-attorney-2, phone 706-628-4080).
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 Harris 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 Harris County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Hamilton, Pine Mountain, Waverly Hall or Shiloh: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 706-628-4080, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Harris County Superior Court, through the court records page at harriscountyga.gov/clerk-of-superior-court-2, phone 706-628-4944.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at harriscountysheriff.org/openRecordsRequests (page title: Harris County Sheriff’s Office).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Harris County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Harris County: Hamilton, Pine Mountain, Waverly Hall and Shiloh.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Harris County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Harris County each year?
Pine Mountain reported 18 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 38 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Harris County?
Look on the custody page of the Harris County Sheriff's Office at harriscountysheriff.org/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Harris County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Harris County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Harris 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 Harris County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Harris 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 harriscountysheriff.org/openRecordsRequests.
Is this the official Harris 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.