Learn More About Georgia County Arrest

The Criminal records comprise of arrest records which are filed and updated by the County Sheriff’s Departments of the various counties in the Georgia State, corrections records that are obtained from the various prisons in the state, records from the criminal repositories of the Georgia State, and county criminal court records which are maintained by the Clerk of the Court’s Office of the different counties.

How Are the Georgia County Arrest Records Created

When an individual is arrested by an arresting agency, the agency files an arrest report which becomes an arrest record. The accused is then brought before a court and tried in a particular criminal court in one of the counties of the state. At the end of the trial, the defendant may either be acquitted or he may be convicted of a crime. The proceedings of the trial and the sentencing record are maintained by the court. These records are referred to as court records.

Depending on the severity of the offense, he may be charged with a jail term, or he may be placed under probation, or he may be let off by paying a fine or he may need to do community service.  If the individual is convicted of a misdemeanor charge he may be sent to the jail instead of the Georgia state prison. But if he is convicted of a felony charge he may either be sent to the jail or a state prison. A prison term or sentence is usually reserved for serious drug abusers, repeat offenders and violent felons. The state prison and correction centers in Georgia State, maintains records of the inmates which are also referred to as corrections records.

The records of arrests, criminal records from the county courts and the prison records are forwarded to the Georgia State’s central repository which stores all the information as criminal history records.

Contents of Georgia County Arrest Records

The County arrest records contain details such of an individual’s identification such as date of birth, name, age, sex, race, social security number if available, height and weight.  The record includes information about the date of arrest, arrest charges, place of arrest and the name of the arresting agency, information on any judicial disposition which may be reported by a court, a prosecutor, any criminal justice agency or a law enforcement agency at the county level. If the person has served a sentence in the state prison or correctional facility in Georgia, the arrest record will then have custodial information about that person’s imprisonment.

For more information you may contact:

Mailing Address

Georgia Crime Information Center, CCH/Identification Services, Supervisor, P.O. Box 370748, Decatur , Georgia 30037-0748, Fax (Criminal History/Identification Services ) : 404 270 8417, Email: gacriminalhistory@gbi.state.ga.us ,Telephone Helpline: 404-244-2639 Website:http://gbi.georgia.gov/00/channel_modifieddate/0,2096,67862954_67866875,00.html or The County Clerks Court Offices: http://gsccca.org/clerks/default or http://gsccca.org/.

Accessing and obtaining copies of the County Arrest Records

To view and obtain the county arrest records in Georgia, you need to contact the office of the County Sheriff or the local Police Department that are situated in all of the counties in the state. According to O.C. G. A. and 35-3-34(d.2) you can look up and verify the details contained in a felony arrest records of other individuals without the consent of that person.

You can use the Georgia State’s felon search website to view information on the arrest records of other individuals from: http://www.felonsearch.ga.gov/ but you need to pay a fee of $ 15 to know if that individual has an arrest record.

For further information on the county arrest records in Georgia you can contact :

Mailing Address:

Open Records Unit, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 3121 Panthersville Road, Decatur, Georgia 30034, Fax: 404-270-8529, Email: OpenRecords@gbi.state.ga.us.

Specific Georgia County Arrest Information:

Gwinnett Arrest