Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2022. 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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in Jackson County, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Jackson County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Ocean Springs public records, Jackson County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Ocean Springs
The FBI lists Ocean Springs with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ocean Springs Police Department. It reported 1,023 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,360 arrests for 2019.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jackson County: Singing River Health System (other); Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Jackson County (campus police).
How Many Arrests Ocean Springs Reports
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.
- Ocean Springs: 1,023 for 2022, 903 for 2021, 765 for 2020 and 923 for 2019.
Ocean Springs's 1,023 arrests in 2022 were up 13 percent from 903 in 2021.
Across Jackson County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,312 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ocean Springs Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Ocean Springs 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 2021 the jail held about 350 people, up from about 330 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 712 beds, and it ran at 47 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at co.jackson.ms.us/324/Inmate-Lookup (page title: Inmate Lookup | Jackson County, MS), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Ocean Springs
Whether someone was arrested in Ocean Springs, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jackson County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.ms.gov); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.jackson.ms.us/560/District-Attorney, phone 228-769-3345).
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's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Ocean Springs
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 Mississippi Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying.
- An arrest by the Ocean Springs police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at oceansprings-ms.gov/251/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Ocean Springs, MS), phone 228-875-2211, 3810 Bienville Blvd Ocean Springs, MS 39564, Mondays: 10 am to 11 am, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 228-769-3345, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jackson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.ms.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Jackson County guide covers every agency in the county: Jackson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Ocean Springs each year?
Ocean Springs reported 1,023 arrests to the FBI for 2022, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ocean Springs?
Look on the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at co.jackson.ms.us/324/Inmate-Lookup. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Ocean Springs booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ocean Springs?
The court files of criminal cases in the Jackson 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.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Ocean Springs?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ocean Springs police for its own arrests, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow.
Is this the official Ocean Springs 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.