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About Georgia Criminal History

Georgia criminal records are divided among statewide and local custodians. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Georgia Crime Information Center maintains the central repository, while the Georgia Department of Corrections, Georgia Sex Offender Registry, courts, sheriffs, and clerks maintain other parts of the record. Georgia Criminal History organizes those official routes so readers can identify the right statewide system or one of Georgia's 159 county offices.

Why We Built This Site

Public access in Georgia depends on who created and now holds the record. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, through GCIC, compiles reportable criminal-history information. The Georgia Department of Corrections maintains state-prison information, and the Georgia Sex Offender Registry provides the statewide public registry. Original arrest reports, bookings, jail records, and most criminal case files remain with county agencies and court clerks. This site brings those statewide pathways together, while each county site supplies the local contacts, portals, procedures, and fees for that jurisdiction. Use the county directory whenever the record began with a local office.

What You Will Find Here

  • County routing: a complete directory of all 159 Georgia counties with a local criminal-records site for each county
  • State system references: what the central repository, corrections locator, court gateway, and registry hold
  • Official check details: how name checks and authorized fingerprint checks move through the Georgia GBI and GCIC
  • Record access guidance: how to search and read Georgia criminal court cases
  • Record relief context: where Georgia record restriction and court sealing processes begin

What We Cannot Do

Georgia Criminal History is a privately operated reference site. It is not connected with a Georgia court, sheriff, police department, GCIC, or any other government body. Those limits matter:

  • We cannot issue a certified court document, rap sheet, or other official record
  • We cannot submit record-restriction petitions, records requests, or court filings for a visitor
  • We cannot retrieve a criminal record or conduct an official background check
  • We cannot interpret a specific case or provide legal advice
  • We cannot promise that an agency's address, fee, phone number, or procedure has not changed

Only the government custodian, such as GCIC, a Georgia court, or the county office that created a record, can provide its official copy.

Search Partners

Third-party providers power search boxes that appear on some pages. Those providers control their own services, results, and prices. A paid signup reached through one of those tools may generate a referral fee for this site, which helps support free public access to the reference material. Georgia Criminal History does not control the partner's charges or returned information.