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 2025. 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.
Starkville, Mississippi, in Oktibbeha County, has about 26,000 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 Oktibbeha 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: Starkville public records, Oktibbeha County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Starkville
The FBI lists Starkville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Starkville Police Department. It reported 1,195 arrests for 2025. 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 Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 226 arrests for 2022.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Oktibbeha County: Starkville Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division (state agency); Mississippi State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Starkville Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Starkville: 1,195 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,008 for 2022, 694 for 2020 and 619 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
Starkville's 1,195 arrests in 2025 were up 0.6 percent from 1,188 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Starkville reported 738 arrests, against 660 in the same months of 2025.
Across Oktibbeha County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 1,234 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Starkville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Starkville 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 2023 the jail held about 60 people, down from about 84 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 125 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oktibbeha.ms.us/inmateRoster (page title: Inmate Roster | Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office), 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 Starkville
For Starkville the place to look is the custody page of the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
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 Starkville
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 Starkville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofstarkville.org/127/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Starkville, MS), phone (662) 323-4131, 101 East Lampkin St Starkville, MS 39759, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Oktibbeha County guide covers every agency in the county: Oktibbeha County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Starkville each year?
Starkville reported 1,195 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Starkville?
Look on the custody page of the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oktibbeha.ms.us/inmateRoster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Starkville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Starkville?
The court files of criminal cases in the Oktibbeha 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 Starkville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Starkville police for its own arrests, the Oktibbeha 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 Starkville 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.