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.
Tift County, Georgia, has about 42,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tift County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. 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 Tift 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: Tift County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tift County
The Tift County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tift County. It reported 946 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Tift County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Tifton, 17,385 residents.
- Omega, 1,324 residents: 179 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 these agencies in Tift County: the State Patrol at Tifton (state police); Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tift 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.
- Tift County Sheriff's Office: 946 for 2025, 687 for 2024, 744 for 2023, 897 for 2022, 604 for 2021 and 744 for 2020.
- Omega: 179 for 2025, 217 for 2024, 161 for 2023 and 226 for 2022.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,125 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,125 in 2025 against 904 in 2024, up 24 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 666 arrests, against 634 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tift County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tift 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 230 people, up from about 220 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 298 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Tift County
Whether someone was arrested in Tift County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Tift County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tiftcounty.org/government/clerk_of_court/index.php, phone (229) 386-7810); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at pacga.org/find-your-prosecutor/county/tift, phone 229-386-7950).
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 Tift 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 Tift County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Tifton or Omega: 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 Tifton or Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 229-386-7950, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Tift County Superior Court, through the court records page at tiftcounty.org, phone (229) 386-7810.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tiftcounty.org (page title: Welcome to Tift County, GA).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Tift County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Tift County: Tifton and Omega. Ty Ty has 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 Tift County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Tift County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Tifton (17,385)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tift County each year?
The Tift County Sheriff's Office reported 946 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,125 between them.
Where are people arrested in Tift County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tift County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tift 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 Tift County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tift 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 tiftcounty.org.
Is this the official Tift 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.