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.
Attala County, Mississippi, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Attala 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 Attala 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: Attala County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Attala County
The Attala County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Attala County. It reported 56 arrests for 2025.
One city in Attala County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Kosciusko, 6,774 residents: 727 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 Each Agency Reports in Attala County
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.
- Kosciusko: 727 for 2025, 484 for 2024, 520 for 2023, 395 for 2022, 324 for 2020 and 412 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Attala County Sheriff's Office: 56 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 77 for 2023 and 129 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 783 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 56 in 2025 against 54 in 2024, up 3.7 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 494 arrests, against 431 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Attala County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Attala County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2016 the jail held about 23 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Attala County Sheriff's Office at attalacounty.net/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Attala County), phone 662-289-5556, 102 Ridgewood Circle Kosciusko, MS 39090, 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 Attala County
Whether someone was arrested in Attala County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Attala County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at attalacounty.net/courts, phone 662-289-2921); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at county-government-offices.cmac.ws/attala-county-district-attorney/4..., phone 662-289-6552).
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 Attala 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 Attala County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 662-289-5556.
- An arrest in Kosciusko: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 662-289-6552, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Attala County Circuit Court, through the court records page at attalacounty.net/courts, phone 662-289-2921.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Attala County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Attala County: Kosciusko. Ethel, Sallis and McCool have 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 Attala County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Attala County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Kosciusko (6,774)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Attala County each year?
Kosciusko reported 727 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 783 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Attala County?
Ask the Attala County Sheriff's Office at 662-289-5556; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at attalacounty.net/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Attala County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Attala County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Attala County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Attala 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 Attala County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Attala 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 Attala 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.