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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Worth County, Georgia, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Worth County Sheriff's Office and three city 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 Worth 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: Worth County public records, Georgia arrest records, Georgia inmate search and Georgia criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Worth County
The Worth County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Worth County. It reported 375 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Worth County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Sylvester, 5,413 residents: 137 arrests reported for 2023.
- Poulan, 724 residents.
- Warwick, 491 residents: 26 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Worth County
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.
- Worth County Sheriff's Office: 375 for 2025, 313 for 2024, 295 for 2023, 475 for 2022, 535 for 2021 and 509 for 2020.
- Warwick: 26 for 2025, 20 for 2024, 65 for 2022, 90 for 2021 and 60 for 2020; 2023 is missing months.
- Sylvester: 137 for 2023, 93 for 2021 and 72 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 401 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 401 in 2025 against 333 in 2024, up 20 percent.
Poulan reported only part of 2025 (4 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Worth County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Worth 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.
On an average day in 2022 the jail held about 24 people, down from about 37 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022 was 23 beds, and it ran at 104 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Worth County Sheriff's Office at worthcountyboc.com/sheriffs/page/current-inmate-charges-and-bonds (page title: Current Inmate Charges and Bonds | Worth County GA), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Georgia Department of Corrections lists its inmates at gdc.georgia.gov/offender-info/find-offender.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Worth County
For Worth County the place to look is the case index of the Worth 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=159, phone (229) 776-8205).
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 Worth 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 Worth County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Sylvester, Poulan or Warwick: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Worth County Superior Court, through the court records page at gsccca.org/clerks/clerk-results?cid=159, phone (229) 776-8205.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request through Georgia Applicant Processing Services.
Cities in Worth County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Worth County: Sylvester, Poulan and Warwick. Sumner 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 Worth County Superior Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Worth County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sylvester (5,413)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Worth County each year?
The Worth County Sheriff's Office reported 375 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 401 between them.
Where are people arrested in Worth County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Worth County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Worth 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 Worth County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Worth 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 Worth 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.