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.
Cleveland, Mississippi, in Bolivar County, has about 10,000 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 Cleveland is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Cleveland public records, Bolivar County criminal records, Cleveland arrest records, Cleveland warrants, Cleveland court records, Cleveland police reports, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Bolivar County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Cleveland is filed in the Bolivar County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, which 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 court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Bolivar County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at bolivar-circuit-clerk.ms (page title: Bolivar County Circuit Clerk | Bolivar County Circuit Clerk), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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
The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is closed to the public in Mississippi: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
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 Cleveland
The Bolivar County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Cleveland (filed by the FBI as Cleveland Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Cleveland: 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.
Together, the six agencies in Bolivar County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,803 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 Cleveland arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Cleveland in 2025
The agency that reports for Cleveland had 26 violent and 191 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 Sex Offender Registry for Cleveland
Registered sex offenders living in Cleveland 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 Bolivar 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Bolivar County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Bolivar County and Mississippi. These criminal records pages from its Bolivar 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 Cleveland?
The court files of criminal cases in the Bolivar 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 Cleveland criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at bolivar-circuit-clerk.ms (page title: Bolivar County Circuit Clerk | Bolivar County Circuit Clerk).
How do I get my own Mississippi criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Is this the official Cleveland 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.