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.
Jenkins County, Georgia, has about 8,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Jenkins County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Jenkins 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: Jenkins County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Jenkins County
The Jenkins County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Jenkins County. It reported 40 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Jenkins County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Millen, 2,980 residents: 18 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.
How Many Arrests Millen Reports
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.
- Millen: 18 for 2025, 42 for 2024, 53 for 2023, 40 for 2022, 31 for 2021 and 37 for 2020.
- Jenkins County Sheriff's Office: 40 for 2022, 78 for 2021 and 30 for 2020.
Millen's 18 arrests in 2025 were down 57 percent from 42 in 2024.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Jenkins County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Jenkins 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 26 people on an average day, down from about 32 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 65 beds, and it is running at 40 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Jenkins County
For Jenkins County the place to look is the case index of the Jenkins 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).
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 Jenkins 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 Jenkins County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Millen: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jenkins County Superior Court, through the court records page at georgiacourts.gov/eaccess-court-records.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Jenkins County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Millen, the one city in Jenkins County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Jenkins County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Jenkins County each year?
Millen reported 18 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Jenkins County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jenkins County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Jenkins 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 Jenkins County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Jenkins 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 Jenkins 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.