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.
Lumpkin County, Georgia, has about 36,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office and one campus 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 Lumpkin 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: Lumpkin County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lumpkin County
The Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lumpkin County. It reported 435 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Lumpkin County: the University of North Georgia (campus police).
How Many Arrests The Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office: 435 for 2025, 370 for 2024, 310 for 2023, 429 for 2022, 469 for 2021 and 478 for 2020.
The Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office's 435 arrests in 2025 were up 18 percent from 370 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office reported 212 arrests, against 261 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lumpkin County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lumpkin 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 130 people on an average day, down from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 256 beds, and it is running at 52 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office at lumpkincounty.gov/154/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Lumpkin County, GA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Lumpkin County
Whether someone was arrested in Lumpkin County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lumpkin County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=93, phone (706) 864-3736); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lumpkincounty.gov/179/District-Attorney, phone 706-864-6754).
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 Lumpkin 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 Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by the University of North Georgia: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 706-864-6754, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Lumpkin County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=93, phone (706) 864-3736.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lumpkincounty.gov (page title: Open Records Act Requests | Lumpkin County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Lumpkin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Lumpkin County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Lumpkin County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lumpkin County each year?
The Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office reported 435 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lumpkin County?
Ask the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at lumpkincounty.gov/154/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Lumpkin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lumpkin 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 Lumpkin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lumpkin 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 lumpkincounty.gov.
Is this the official Lumpkin 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.