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 9, 2026.
Adams County, Mississippi, has about 29,000 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 Adams County 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: Adams County public records, Adams County arrest records, Adams County warrants, Adams County inmate search, Adams County court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Adams County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Adams County is filed in the Adams 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at adamscountyms.net/county-departments/justice-court (page title: Justice Court | Adams County, Mississippi), phone (601) 442-0199, 114 South Wall Street Natchez, MS 39121, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Justice Court and County Court, not to the Adams County Circuit Court.
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 Adams County
The Adams County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Natchez keep the arrest records in Adams County: 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 Adams County Sheriff's Office reported 534 arrests to the FBI for 2025; 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 Adams County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Adams County in 2025
The one agency in Adams County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 58 violent and 174 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 232 crimes in 2025 against 273 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Adams County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Adams County
Registered sex offenders living in Adams County 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 Adams 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. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at adamscountyms.net/ufaq/how-do-i-make-a-public-records-request (page title: How do I make a public records request? | Adams County, Mississippi).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Adams County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Adams County and Mississippi. These criminal records pages from its Adams County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Most Wanted (adamscosheriff.net)
- Public Sex Offender Registry (state.sor.dps.ms.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Adams County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Adams 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 Adams County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at adamscountyms.net (page title: Justice Court | Adams County, Mississippi); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Adams County Circuit Court.
How do I get my own Mississippi criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Is this the official Adams County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.