Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 24, 2026.
Amite County, Mississippi, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Amite County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 Amite County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Amite County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Amite County
The Amite County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Amite County. It reported 5 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
One city in Amite County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Gloster, 858 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Gloster 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.
- Gloster: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Amite County Sheriff's Office: 5 for 2023, 0 for 2022 and 1 for 2021.
Through September 2026, Gloster reported 666 arrests, against 864 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Amite County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Amite County 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 2019 the jail held about 58 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 17 beds, and it ran at 341 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 Amite County Sheriff's Office at amitecounty.ms/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Amite County, Mississippi), phone 601-657-8057, 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 Amite County
An arrest in Amite County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Amite County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at amitecounty.ms/court-systems, phone 601-657-8022); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at amitecounty.ms/district-attorney, phone 601-445-4099).
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 Amite County
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 Amite County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 601-657-8057.
- An arrest in Gloster: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 601-445-4099, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Amite County Circuit Court, through the court records page at amitecounty.ms/court-systems, phone 601-657-8022.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Amite County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Amite County: Gloster. Liberty has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Amite County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Amite County each year?
Gloster reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Amite County?
Ask the Amite County Sheriff's Office at 601-657-8057; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at amitecounty.ms/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Amite County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Amite County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Amite County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Amite 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 Amite County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Amite County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Amite 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.