Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 September 26, 2026.
Fountain Inn, South Carolina, in Greenville County, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Solicitor files charges, a case in the Greenville County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Fountain Inn public records, Greenville County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Fountain Inn
The FBI lists Fountain Inn with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Fountain Inn Police Department. It reported 516 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Greenville County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 11,962 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Greenville County: Greenville Technical College, Furman University and Bob Jones University (campus police); the Greenville County State Transport Police, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Greenville County, Greenville County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Department of Natural Resources in Greenville County and one more (state agency); Greenville Hospital at Greenville (other); the Highway Patrol in Greenville County (state police).
How Many Arrests Fountain Inn Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Fountain Inn: 516 for 2025, 461 for 2023, 352 for 2022, 364 for 2021, 458 for 2020 and 355 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
Through July 2026, Fountain Inn reported 287 arrests, against 263 in the same months of 2025.
Across Greenville County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 18,924 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fountain Inn Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Fountain Inn 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 2024 the jail held about 1,460 people, up from about 1,280 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,277 beds, and it ran at 104 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 Greenville County Sheriff's Office at app.greenvillecounty.org/inmate_search.htm (page title: Inmate Search), 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the South Carolina Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Fountain Inn
An arrest in Fountain Inn can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Greenville County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at greenvillecounty.org/ClerkOfCourt/CopiesOfRecords.aspx); the Solicitor, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at greenvillecounty.org/Solicitor, phone 864-467-8647).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Fountain Inn
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 South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Fountain Inn police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at fountaininn.org/189/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Fountain Inn, SC), phone 864-531-0644, 300 N Main Street Fountain Inn, SC 29644, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Solicitor, 864-467-8647, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Greenville County Circuit Court, through the court records page at greenvillecounty.org.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Greenville County guide covers every agency in the county: Greenville County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fountain Inn each year?
Fountain Inn reported 516 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fountain Inn?
Look on the custody page of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office at app.greenvillecounty.org/inmate_search.htm. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Fountain Inn booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fountain Inn?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Fountain Inn?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fountain Inn police for its own arrests, the Greenville County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old.
Is this the official Fountain Inn website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.