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 October 2, 2026.
Ridgeland, Mississippi, in Madison County, has about 25,000 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 Ridgeland 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.
Related guides: Ridgeland public records, Madison County criminal records, Ridgeland arrest records, Ridgeland warrants, Ridgeland inmate search, Ridgeland court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Madison County Circuit Court
In Mississippi the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Ridgeland are heard by the Madison 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at madison-co.com/court-systems (page title: Court Systems | Madison County Mississippi), 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
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 Madison 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 Ridgeland
The Madison County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Ridgeland (filed by the FBI as Ridgeland Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Ridgeland: 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 Madison County: Holmes Community College at Ridgeland (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Jackson Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Madison County, so its arrests are not broken out for Madison County here.
Together, the four agencies in Madison County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,910 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 Ridgeland arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Ridgeland in 2024
The agency that reports for Ridgeland had 78 violent and 338 property crimes reported for 2024; 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 Madison County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Madison County become charges and files them in the Madison 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 madison-co.com/elected-offices/district-attorney/contact-us (page title: Contact Us | Madison County Mississippi), phone (601) 859-7838, 3390 North Liberty Street Suite B P.O. Box 121 Canton, MS 39046, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Ridgeland
Registered sex offenders living in Ridgeland 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 Madison 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 Madison County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Madison County and Mississippi. These criminal records pages from its Madison County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Public Sex Offender Registry (state.sor.dps.ms.gov)
- Sex Offenders (sheriffrandytucker.com)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Ridgeland?
The court files of criminal cases in the Madison 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 Ridgeland criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at madison-co.com/court-systems (page title: Court Systems | Madison County Mississippi).
How do I get my own Mississippi criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Who prosecutes crimes in Ridgeland?
The District Attorney, reached at (601) 859-7838, which files its cases in the Madison County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court.
Is this the official Ridgeland 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.