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 between September 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Kemper County, Mississippi, has about 8,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kemper County Sheriff's Office and two campus agencies. 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 Kemper 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: Kemper County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kemper County
The Kemper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kemper County. It reported 37 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Kemper County: East Mississippi Community College at Scooba and East Mississippi Community College at Golden Triangle (campus police).
How Many Arrests The Kemper County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Kemper County Sheriff's Office: 37 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 1 for 2022 and 4 for 2021.
Through July 2026, Kemper County Sheriff's Office reported 43 arrests, against 17 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kemper County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kemper 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 2023 the jail held about 380 people, up from about 340 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 442 beds, and it ran at 86 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Kemper County Sheriff's Office at kempercounty.com/inmate-roster (page title: Kemper County Inmate Roster), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Kemper County
Whether someone was arrested in Kemper County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Kemper County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kemper County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kempercountyms.gov/courts, phone (601)656-1881).
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 Kemper 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 Kemper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by East Mississippi Community College at Scooba or East Mississippi Community College at Golden Triangle: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kemper County Circuit Court, through the court records page at kempercountyms.gov/courts, phone (601)656-1881.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Kemper County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Kemper County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Kemper County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kemper County each year?
The Kemper County Sheriff's Office reported 37 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Kemper County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kemper County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kemper County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Kemper 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 Kemper County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kemper 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 Kemper 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.