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 on September 24, 2026.
Hinds County, Mississippi, has about 212,000 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 Hinds 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.
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Criminal Cases in the Hinds County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Hinds County is filed in the Hinds 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 co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/courts/results.asp (page title: Hinds County Justice Court Civil Docket), phone 601-965-8800, 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 Hinds 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
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 file in the Hinds County Circuit Court is the public record.
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 Hinds County
The Hinds County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Jackson, Clinton, Byram, Terry, Raymond, Edwards and two more cities keep the arrest records in Hinds 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 FBI's agency list also places two state agencies and three campus police departments in Hinds County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the five agencies in Hinds County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,660 arrests to the FBI that year; 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 Hinds County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Hinds County in 2025
The seven agencies in Hinds County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 631 violent and 2,644 property crimes to the FBI that year; the three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 396 crimes in 2025 against 483 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 Hinds County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Hinds County
Registered sex offenders living in Hinds 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 Hinds 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Hinds County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Hinds County and Mississippi. These criminal records pages from its Hinds County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Public Sex Offender Registry (state.sor.dps.ms.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Hinds County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Hinds 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 Hinds County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/courts/results.asp (page title: Hinds County Justice Court Civil Docket); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Hinds 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 Hinds 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.