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.
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, has about 52,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and two campus, state or other 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 Oktibbeha 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: Oktibbeha County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Oktibbeha County
The Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Oktibbeha County. It reported 226 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Oktibbeha County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Starkville, 25,844 residents: 1,195 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Oktibbeha County: Starkville Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division (state agency); Mississippi State University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Oktibbeha 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.
- Starkville: 1,195 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,008 for 2022, 694 for 2020 and 619 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office: 226 for 2022.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 1,234 arrests that year.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oktibbeha County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oktibbeha 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 60 people, down from about 84 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 125 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oktibbeha.ms.us/inmateRoster (page title: Inmate Roster | Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Oktibbeha County
For Oktibbeha County the place to look is the custody page of the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
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 Oktibbeha County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Starkville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Starkville Commercial Transportation Enforcement Division or Mississippi State University: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
Cities in Oktibbeha County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Oktibbeha County: Starkville. Maben and Sturgis 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 Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Oktibbeha County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Starkville (25,844)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oktibbeha County each year?
Starkville reported 1,195 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Oktibbeha County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 1,234 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Oktibbeha County?
Look on the custody page of the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oktibbeha.ms.us/inmateRoster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Oktibbeha County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oktibbeha County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha 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.