Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Brandon, Mississippi, in Rankin County, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Mississippi the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records; the statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Brandon is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Rankin County Circuit Court
In Mississippi the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Brandon are heard by the Rankin County Circuit Court, which hears felonies and the larger civil cases; the Justice Court and County Court take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims in the Justice Court; the County Court, where the county has one, takes eminent domain, juvenile and mid-sized civil cases, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
For Rankin County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at rankincounty.org/department/index.php?structureid=41 (page title: Justice Court | Rankin County, Mississippi), phone (601) 824-2668, 201 North St Brandon, MS 39042, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Justice Court and County Court, not to the Rankin County Circuit Court.
Mississippi has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Mississippi Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Mississippi does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Rankin County Circuit Court is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at dps.ms.gov/investigation/criminal-information-center/Release-Backgr....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Brandon
The Rankin County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Brandon (filed by the FBI as Brandon Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Brandon: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Rankin County: Pearl Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division (state agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Jackson Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Rankin County, so its arrests are not broken out for Rankin County here.
Together, the seven agencies in Rankin County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,823 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Brandon arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Brandon in 2025
The agency that reports for Brandon had 13 violent and 79 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Rankin County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Rankin County become charges and files them in the Rankin County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at rankincounty.org/department (page title: County Home PageBoard of SupervisorsChancery ClerkCircuit ClerkCounty ProsecutorDistrict AttorneyElection Comm), phone 601.608.0056, 211 E Government St Suite A Brandon, MS 39042, Mon - Fri, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Brandon
Registered sex offenders living in Brandon are listed on the Mississippi Sex Offender Registry, run by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety at offenderwatch.com/network/mississippi. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Rankin County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Mississippi Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at rankincounty.org/topic/index.php?topicid=70&structureid=16 (page title: Public Information Requests | Rankin County, Mississippi).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Rankin County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Rankin County and Mississippi. These criminal records pages from its Rankin County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Public Sex Offender Registry (state.sor.dps.ms.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Brandon?
The court files of criminal cases in the Rankin County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Mississippi Public Records Act.
Can I search Brandon criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at rankincounty.org (page title: Justice Court | Rankin County, Mississippi); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Rankin County Circuit Court.
How do I get my own Mississippi criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Who prosecutes crimes in Brandon?
The District Attorney, reached at 601.608.0056, which files its cases in the Rankin County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court.
Is this the official Brandon website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.