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.
Oconee County, Georgia, has about 45,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Oconee County Sheriff's Office. 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 Oconee 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: Oconee County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Oconee County
The Oconee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Oconee County. It reported 745 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Oconee County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Oconee County Sheriff's Office: 745 for 2025, 788 for 2024, 985 for 2023, 963 for 2022, 749 for 2021 and 566 for 2020.
The Oconee County Sheriff's Office's 745 arrests in 2025 were down 5.5 percent from 788 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported 407 arrests, against 464 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oconee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oconee 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.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 84 people, up from about 38 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 137 beds, and it ran at 61 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office at oconeecountyga.gov/1380/Current-Inmates (page title: Current Inmates | Oconee County, GA), 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 Oconee County
Whether someone was arrested in Oconee County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Oconee County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at oconeecountyga.gov/m/directory/department?did=32, phone 706-769-3954).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at oconeecountyga.gov/721/Superior-and-Magistrate-Court-Docket-Sea (page title: Superior and Magistrate Court Docket Search | Oconee County, GA), belongs to a lower court, not to the Oconee County Superior Court.
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 Oconee 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 Oconee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 706-769-3954, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Oconee County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at oconeecountyga.gov, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oconeecountyga.gov (page title: Open Records Request Form | Oconee County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Oconee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Oconee 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 Oconee County Superior Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oconee County each year?
The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported 745 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Oconee County?
Look on the custody page of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office at oconeecountyga.gov/1380/Current-Inmates. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Oconee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oconee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oconee 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 Oconee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oconee 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 oconeecountyga.gov.
Is this the official Oconee 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.