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 2024. 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.
Hardeeville, South Carolina, in Jasper 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 Jasper 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: Hardeeville public records, Jasper County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hardeeville
The FBI lists Hardeeville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hardeeville Police Department. It reported 527 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 592 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jasper County: Jasper County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Jasper County Forestry Commission, the Department of Natural Resources in Jasper County, the Jasper County State Transport Police and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Jasper County (state police).
How Many Arrests Hardeeville 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.
- Hardeeville: 527 for 2024, 516 for 2023, 399 for 2021, 347 for 2020 and 366 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Hardeeville's 527 arrests in 2024 were up 2.1 percent from 516 in 2023.
Across Jasper County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 636 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hardeeville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hardeeville 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 95 people, up from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022, the last year with a capacity figure, was 150 beds, and it ran at 53 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 Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jasperso.com/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Jasper SO), 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 Hardeeville
Whether someone was arrested in Hardeeville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jasper County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at jaspercountysc.gov/public-safety-offices/county-courts/clerk-of-court, phone (843) 726-7710).
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 Hardeeville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Hardeeville police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at hardeevillesc.gov/m/faq (page title: FAQs | CivicPlus.CMS.FAQ), phone 803-896-1443, 26 Martin Street, Hardeeville, SC 29927, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jasper County Circuit Court, through the court records page at jaspercountysc.gov, phone (843) 726-7710.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jaspercountysc.gov (page title: Records Requests | Jasper County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Jasper County guide covers every agency in the county: Jasper County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hardeeville each year?
Hardeeville reported 527 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hardeeville?
Look on the custody page of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office at jasperso.com/inmate-roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Hardeeville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hardeeville?
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 Hardeeville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hardeeville police for its own arrests, the Jasper 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at jaspercountysc.gov.
Is this the official Hardeeville 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.