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.
Thomas County, Georgia, has about 46,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Thomas County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies 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 Thomas 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: Thomas County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Thomas County
The Thomas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Thomas County. It reported 404 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Thomasville, 18,604 residents: 1,063 arrests reported for 2025.
- Boston, 1,235 residents: 41 arrests reported for 2025.
- Meigs, 944 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pavo, 603 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Coolidge, 544 residents: 1 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 Thomas County: the State Patrol at Thomasville (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Thomas 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.
- Pavo: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Meigs: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Thomasville: 1,063 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,163 for 2023, 1,236 for 2022, 1,182 for 2021 and 1,057 for 2020.
- Thomas County Sheriff's Office: 404 for 2025, 388 for 2024, 628 for 2023, 681 for 2022, 682 for 2021 and 571 for 2020.
- Boston: 41 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 45 for 2023, 38 for 2022, 54 for 2021 and 42 for 2020.
- Coolidge: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2019; 2020 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,813 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,813 in 2025 against 3,912 in 2024, down 2.5 percent.
Through June 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,859 arrests, against 1,867 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Thomas County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Thomas County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 460 people on an average day, up from about 190 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 480 beds, and it is running at 96 percent of it. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Thomas County Sheriff's Office at thomascountysheriffsoffice.com/jail/jail-roster (page title: Inmates | Thomas County Sheriffs Office), 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 Thomas County
Whether someone was arrested in Thomas County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Thomas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Thomas 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=136, phone (229) 225-4108); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at thomascountyboc.org/courts/district-attorney-s-office, phone (229) 226-6141).
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 Thomas 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 Thomas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Thomasville, Boston, Meigs, Pavo or Coolidge: 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 Thomasville: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (229) 226-6141, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Thomas County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=136, phone (229) 225-4108.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Thomas County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the seven cities in Thomas County: Thomasville, Boston, Meigs, Pavo and Coolidge. Ochlocknee and Barwick 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 Thomas County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Thomas County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Thomasville (18,604)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Thomas County each year?
Pavo reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,813 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Thomas County?
Look on the custody page of the Thomas County Sheriff's Office at thomascountysheriffsoffice.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Thomas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Thomas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Thomas 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 Thomas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Thomas 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 Thomas 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.