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.
Morgan County, Georgia, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state 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 Morgan 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: Morgan County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Morgan County
The Morgan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Morgan County.
The FBI lists one city in Morgan County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Madison, 5,131 residents: 72 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Morgan County: the State Patrol at Madison (state police).
How Many Arrests Madison 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.
- Madison: 72 for 2025, 109 for 2022, 99 for 2021, 119 for 2020 and 190 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morgan County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Morgan 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 76 people on an average day, down from about 78 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 192 beds, and it is running at 40 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office at morgancountyga.gov/159/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Morgan County, GA), phone (706) 342-1507, 1380 Monticello Road Madison, GA 30650, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Morgan County
An arrest in Morgan County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Morgan County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov/208/Court-Services); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at morgancountyga.gov/209/Assistant-District-Attorney, phone (706) 342-5071).
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 Morgan 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 Morgan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (706) 342-1507.
- An arrest in Madison: 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 State Patrol at Madison: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (706) 342-5071, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Morgan County Superior Court, through the court records page at morgancountyga.gov/208/Court-Services.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov (page title: Form Center, Open Records Request Form).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Morgan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Morgan County: Madison. Rutledge, Bostwick and Buckhead 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 Morgan County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Morgan County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Madison (5,131)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morgan County each year?
Madison reported 72 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Morgan County?
Ask the Morgan County Sheriff's Office at (706) 342-1507; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at morgancountyga.gov/159/Sheriffs-Office.
Where are people arrested in Morgan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morgan 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 Morgan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morgan 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 morgancountyga.gov.
Is this the official Morgan 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.