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 October 9, 2026.
Lyman, South Carolina, in Spartanburg County, has about 6,900 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 Spartanburg 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: Lyman public records, Spartanburg County arrest records, South Carolina arrest records and South Carolina inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lyman
The FBI lists Lyman with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lyman Police Department. It reported 107 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 Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 898 arrests for 2024.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Spartanburg County: the Department of Natural Resources in Spartanburg County, the Spartanburg County State Transport Police, South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control in Spartanburg County and two more (state agency); the University of South Carolina at Upstate, Spartanburg Methodist College and Wofford College (campus police); Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (other); the Highway Patrol in Spartanburg County (state police).
How Many Arrests Lyman 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.
- Lyman: 107 for 2025, 108 for 2024, 61 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 129 for 2021 and 144 for 2020.
Lyman's 107 arrests in 2025 were down 0.9 percent from 108 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Lyman reported 40 arrests, against 56 in the same months of 2025.
Across Spartanburg County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,610 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lyman Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lyman 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 2024 the jail held about 890 people, up from about 890 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 496 beds, and it ran at 167 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office at spartanburgcounty.gov/595/Detention-Center (page title: Detention Center | Spartanburg County, SC), phone 864-596-3424, 950 California Ave Spartanburg, SC 29303, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lyman
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 Lyman
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 Lyman police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at lymansc.gov/departments/police_department/faqs.php (page title: Town of Lyman, SC), phone (864) 439-8445, 81 Groce Road Lyman, SC 29365, Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 864-596-3424.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at spartanburg-county-sc.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Spartanburg County guide covers every agency in the county: Spartanburg County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lyman each year?
Lyman reported 107 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lyman?
Ask the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office at 864-596-3424; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at spartanburgcounty.gov/595/Detention-Center.
Where are people arrested in Lyman booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lyman?
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 Lyman?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lyman police for its own arrests, the Spartanburg 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 spartanburg-county-sc.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Lyman 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.