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.
Paulding County, Georgia, has about 189,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and one other 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 Paulding 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: Paulding County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Paulding County
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Paulding County. It reported 1,154 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Paulding County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Dallas, 15,062 residents: 191 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hiram, 5,520 residents: 326 arrests reported for 2025.
- Braswell, 368 residents: 3 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 Paulding County: the Paulding County Marshal (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Paulding County
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.
- Paulding County Sheriff's Office: 1,154 for 2025, 1,016 for 2024, 1,022 for 2023, 651 for 2022, 936 for 2021 and 1,085 for 2020.
- Hiram: 326 for 2025, 262 for 2022 and 381 for 2021; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Dallas: 191 for 2025, 161 for 2024, 230 for 2022, 139 for 2021 and 356 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
- Braswell: 3 for 2025, 12 for 2024, 8 for 2022, 10 for 2021 and 2 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,674 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,348 in 2025 against 1,189 in 2024, up 13 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Paulding County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Paulding 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 290 people on an average day, up from about 250 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 631 beds, and it is running at 46 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 Paulding County Sheriff's Office at paulding.gov/1177/Visitation-and-Communication (page title: Jail Visitation and Bonding | Paulding County, GA), phone (770) 443-3030, 90 Constitution Boulevard Dallas, GA 30132, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Paulding County
Whether someone was arrested in Paulding County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Paulding County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov/1318/CASE-SEARCH, phone 770 443-7527); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at paulding.gov/139/District-Attorney, phone 770-443-7561).
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 Paulding 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 Paulding County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (770) 443-3030.
- An arrest in Dallas, Hiram or Braswell: 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 Paulding County Marshal: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770-443-7561, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Paulding County Superior Court, through the court records page at paulding.gov/1318/CASE-SEARCH, phone 770 443-7527.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov/566/Request-for-Public-Records (page title: Request for Public Records | Paulding County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Paulding County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Paulding County: Dallas, Hiram and Braswell.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Paulding County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Paulding County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Hiram (5,520)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Paulding County each year?
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office reported 1,154 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,674 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Paulding County?
Ask the Paulding County Sheriff's Office at (770) 443-3030; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at paulding.gov.
Where are people arrested in Paulding County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Paulding 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 Paulding County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Paulding 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 paulding.gov/566/Request-for-Public-Records.
Is this the official Paulding 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.