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.
Yazoo City, Mississippi, in Yazoo County, has about 9,900 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 Yazoo 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: Yazoo City public records, Yazoo County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Yazoo City
The FBI lists Yazoo City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Yazoo City Police Department. It reported 1,152 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 Yazoo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,152 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Yazoo City 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.
- Yazoo City: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
Through September 2026, Yazoo City reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Across Yazoo County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,304 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Yazoo City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Yazoo City 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 380 people, down from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 385 beds, and it ran at 98 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office at yazoorcf.com (page title: Welcome to the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Yazoo City
For Yazoo City the place to look is the case index of the Yazoo County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at yazoocounty.net/circuit-clerk, phone 662-746-1872).
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 Yazoo City
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Yazoo City police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofyazoocity.org/city-government/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Yazoo City), phone 662-746-1131, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yazoo County Circuit Court, through the court records page at yazoocounty.net/circuit-clerk, phone 662-746-1872.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Yazoo County guide covers every agency in the county: Yazoo County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Yazoo City each year?
Yazoo City reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Yazoo City?
Ask the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at yazoorcf.com.
Where are people arrested in Yazoo City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Yazoo City?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yazoo 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 Yazoo City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Yazoo City police for its own arrests, the Yazoo 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 Yazoo City 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.