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.
Upson County, Georgia, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Upson County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and two state 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 Upson 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: Upson County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Upson County
The Upson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Upson County. It reported 296 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Upson County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Thomaston, 9,850 residents: 497 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 Upson County: the State Patrol at Highway Support Division, Thomaston and the State Patrol at Thomaston (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Upson 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.
- Thomaston: 497 for 2025, 578 for 2024, 558 for 2023 and 532 for 2022.
- Upson County Sheriff's Office: 296 for 2025 and 364 for 2024.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 793 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 793 in 2025 against 942 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 355 arrests, against 403 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Upson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Upson 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 140 people on an average day, up from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity is 220 beds, and it is running at 64 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 Upson County Sheriff's Office at upsoncountyga.org/464/Office-of-the-Sheriff (page title: Office of the Sheriff | Upson County, GA), 235 Aviation Drive Thomaston, GA 30286, 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 Upson County
Whether someone was arrested in Upson County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Upson County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at upsoncountyga.org/186/Courts); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at upsoncountyga.org/166/District-Attorney, phone 770-716-4250).
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 Upson 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 Upson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Thomaston: 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 Highway Support Division, Thomaston or the State Patrol at Thomaston: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 770-716-4250, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Upson County Superior Court, through the court records page at upsoncountyga.org/186/Courts.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Upson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Upson County: Thomaston. Yatesville 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 Upson County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Upson County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Thomaston (9,850)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Upson County each year?
Thomaston reported 497 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 793 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Upson County?
Ask the Upson County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at upsoncountyga.org/464/Office-of-the-Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Upson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Upson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Upson 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 Upson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Upson 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 Upson 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.