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.
Yazoo County, Mississippi, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). Every warrant for Yazoo County comes from a judge of the Yazoo County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Yazoo County public records, Yazoo County arrest records, Yazoo County inmate search, Yazoo County criminal records, Yazoo County court records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Yazoo County
In Mississippi an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Yazoo County that means the Yazoo County Circuit Court, which hears felonies and the larger civil cases; the Justice Court and County Court issue their own warrants on the cases before them. A city with a municipal court of its own issues warrants on the tickets and ordinance cases it tries.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
For Yazoo County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at yazoocounty.net/circuit-clerk (page title: Circuit Clerk | Yazoo County, Mississippi), phone 662-746-1872, 209 E. Broadway St. Yazoo City, MS 39194, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Mississippi has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
Who Serves Warrants in Yazoo County
The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Yazoo City serve warrants in Yazoo County.
A warrant issued in Yazoo County is good anywhere in Mississippi, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Together, the two agencies in Yazoo County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,304 arrests to the FBI that year; arrests on warrants are counted among them, not separately.
Each agency and what it reported is in Yazoo County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Yazoo County Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody goes to the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest. The jail, run by the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office, held about 380 people on an average day in 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice's count and has a jail page SearchSystems verified at yazoorcf.com. The Yazoo County inmate search guide covers the jail in full.
A person arrested in Yazoo County on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Yazoo County
The place to check for a warrant from Yazoo County is the court file of the case, through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-746-1872, since a warrant is recorded in the case it was issued in.
Not one of the Yazoo County pages SearchSystems verified (the sheriff's and the court's) is a list of open warrants, so a check means asking the court or the prosecutor about a case by name.
The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not open to the public in Mississippi, so it is not a route to a warrant check on someone else.
Clearing a Warrant from Yazoo County
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Yazoo County that means appearing before the Yazoo County Circuit Court or the Justice Court and County Court, with the case put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records.
A missed date in a case before the Justice Court and County Court is handled by that court, not by the Yazoo County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Yazoo County?
Not from the Yazoo County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. The court file is the record of a warrant: ask the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-746-1872.
Who serves warrants in Yazoo County?
The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office, and the agency that reports for the city where the person is found; an Mississippi warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Yazoo County held?
At the county jail, run by the Yazoo County Sheriff's Office, if kept in custody.
How is a warrant from Yazoo County cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the Circuit Clerk for criminal and civil cases and the Chancery Clerk for divorces, estates and land records at 662-746-1872.
Is this the official Yazoo 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.