Official Brooks County Inmate Search
The official local path starts with the Brooks County Sheriff's Department page, which names Sheriff Mike Dewey and links to the Daily Jail Population for Brooks County Jail. That link opens the Brooks County current inmates roster hosted by Synergistic Software. The roster is free to view and no login is required on the public page.
Brooks County Jail is the only county jail identified for this Georgia project. It is operated by the Brooks County Sheriff's Department and holds people arrested by the sheriff, Quitman Police Department, municipal authorities, the GBI, court-related agencies, and other local law-enforcement bodies. The roster is best for current local custody, recent booking, arresting agency, bond status, warrant numbers, and charge rows. It is not a statewide criminal-history search, a court case database, or a federal detention locator.
The current roster does not publish a refresh interval or a last-updated timestamp. The displayed page count can change as bookings and releases occur, so the count should be treated as a page-load snapshot. The arrest-date tab also shows released entries in its visible date range, but Brooks County does not publish a fixed retention period for older released booking records.
The official current-inmates roster shows the name filter, image cell, charge rows, bond field, and pagination a reader sees when searching Brooks County inmate records.
Use the Brooks County Roster
The Brooks County inmate roster has three useful paths. Current Inmates is the default custody list. The 24 Hours Arrests tab is meant for new bookings. The Inmates by Arrest Date tab adds date controls and may show current and released records within the portal's visible range. A missing name on one tab does not prove there was no arrest, especially if the booking is new, the name is spelled differently, or the person has already been released.
- Open the sheriff page and select the Daily Jail Population link, or go straight to the Current Inmates roster.
- Leave the first-name and last-name boxes blank to scan the full current list, then use the page numbers and Next control if more than one page is shown.
- Enter a last name, first name, or both to narrow the jail roster. The roster labels the name filter optional.
- Use the 24 Hours Arrests tab for a very recent Brooks County booking that may be easier to find by time than by name.
- Use the Inmates by Arrest Date tab when the arrest date is known or when released entries may matter.
- Read the row detail for status, arresting agency, bond, warrant number, charge description, misdemeanor or felony indicator, and court.
- If the person is not listed, call the jail, check GDC, BOP, or ICE as appropriate, register with VINELink when release notice matters, or request existing records under the county open-records process.
Brooks County Roster Fields
The county roster search is narrower than many state systems. The current-inmates tab does not expose a booking-number search, date-of-birth search, charge filter, bond filter, race filter, housing filter, or arresting-agency dropdown. The arrest-date tab is broader because it pairs name boxes with calendar fields. That makes it the strongest official roster channel for a Brooks County jail record tied to a known arrest period.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filter By Inmate Name / Last Name | Text | Optional | Placeholder text says last name; autocomplete was off. |
| First Name | Text | Optional | Can be used alone or with last name. |
| Begin Date | Date text with calendar picker | Used on arrest-date tab | Observed in M/D/YYYY format with month and year navigation. |
| End Date | Date text with calendar picker | Used on arrest-date tab | Limits arrest-date results through the selected end date. |
| Search Inmates | Button | n/a | Runs the roster filter or date-range search. |
| Pagination | Page links | n/a | Shows page count and item count, with Prev, Next, and page numbers. |
For date-based searching, the Brooks County arrest-date roster tab includes calendar controls and status values for entries in the selected range.
Brooks County Record Details
A Brooks County roster entry is more than a name row. The visible row structure places an image area on the left and public values beside it. Sampled records showed the address field redacted, which is an important limit. The public records inspected did not show date of birth, booking number, jail ID, housing unit, pod, cell, medical flag, work-release status, custody classification, projected release date, or ICE detainer field.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Image | Booking-photo area or an Image Not Available placeholder. |
| Name | Person's name in last-name-first format. |
| Status | CURRENTLY BOOKED or RELEASED where shown. |
| Sex | M or F on sampled public rows. |
| Height / Weight | Physical description values listed on the roster. |
| Address | REDACTED in the public entries inspected. |
| Arrest Date / Agency | Date plus arresting agency, such as Brooks County SO, Quitman PD, or GBI. |
| Days in Jail | Number of days held on that public jail entry. |
| Total Bond | Numeric bond amount, NOT SET, or DENIED. |
| Charge Detail | Warrant number, count, statute, description, M/F indicator, and court. |
Roster limit: A jail roster charge is not a conviction. Court records must show the final status before a charge can be treated as resolved or proven.
Brooks County Access Channels
Brooks County has a working online roster, but the online roster is only one channel. If the booking is too new, too old, released, transferred, sealed, exempt, or outside county custody, the search has to move in a clear order. The county policy manual also supports open-records requests by telephone, in person, mail, fax, online through the county website, or email. Written requests are preferred, and the county reviews whether records exist, whether exemptions apply, and what costs are allowed.
| Need | Best Channel | Why It Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Current local custody | Current Inmates roster | Shows people currently booked into Brooks County Jail. |
| New arrest | 24 Hours Arrests | Shows recent Brooks County bookings. |
| Older or released booking | Inmates by Arrest Date or records request | Searches a date range and may include released status values. |
| Phone confirmation | Brooks County Jail, (229) 263-8153 | Direct jail number published by the sheriff page. |
| In-person custody question | Brooks County Jail | Use the Holloway Drive jail address, not the sheriff's courthouse office. |
| Existing non-online record | Brooks County open-records process | Use the person's name, arrest date, agency, and record type. |
| Release notification | VINELink | Helps register for custody-status alerts, not full booking files. |
| Mobile app | No official Brooks County sheriff app located | Use the roster, phone, records request, and outside locators instead. |
County, GDC, BOP, and ICE
Brooks County inmate records split by custody level. A person arrested locally may start on the county roster. If a felony case ends in a Georgia state-prison sentence, the person may transfer out of the county jail and into the Georgia Department of Corrections system. Federal prison and immigration custody use separate federal tools and may place the person in a facility outside Brooks County.
| Custody Type | Where to Search | What It Usually Shows |
|---|---|---|
| County jail, pretrial, local sentence, warrant hold | Brooks County jail roster | Local booking, status, charge rows, bond, arresting agency, court. |
| Georgia sentenced state prisoner | GDC offender query | State offender record, GDC ID, institution, conviction-county filters, and photos if available. |
| Federal sentenced inmate | BOP inmate locator | Register number, age, race, sex, release date, and facility location. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator | Immigration custody lookup, not a county charge or mugshot record. |
The GDC offender query has a broader set of fields than the county roster, including gender, race, age, most recent institution, conviction county, primary offense, active or inactive scope, and ID searches. Brooks County Jail may appear as a most recent institution, but that field alone does not mean the person is currently housed there.
Brooks County Jail Contact
Call the jail before visiting, mailing, sending money, or relying on a bond field. Brooks County does not publish jail lobby hours, bond-posting hours, visitor entrance details, full mail rules, or a public visitation rule sheet in the official pages reviewed. The jail phone is therefore the most direct fallback when the roster does not answer a custody or booking question.
Brooks County Jail
1003 Holloway Drive
Quitman, GA 31643
(229) 263-8153
Operator: Brooks County Sheriff's Department
Brooks County Sheriff's Office
1 Screven Street, Suite 3
Quitman, GA 31643
(229) 263-7558
Sheriff: Mike Dewey
Brooks County Visitation Facts
Official Brooks County sources did not publish a weekly jail visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, mail format, deposit vendor, visit length, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit procedure, holiday schedule, or lockdown cancellation rule. That absence is a key Brooks County fact. Do not rely on third-party jail directories for hours that the county has not verified online.
| Visit Type | Published Schedule | Practical Next Step |
|---|---|---|
| In-person public visitation | Not published in official sources | Call Brooks County Jail before arrival. |
| Attorney visitation | Not published in official sources | Arrange through the jail or court contact. |
| Remote or video visitation | No official vendor located | Ask the jail whether remote visits are offered. |
| Holiday or lockdown changes | Not published in official sources | Confirm by phone on the day of the planned visit. |
Brooks County's FY 2024-25 budget includes an Inmate Commissary Fund, which supports that commissary activity exists as county financial activity. It does not provide family deposit steps, fees, kiosk rules, or online vendor instructions. The safe route is to confirm the current custody status and payment method with the jail before sending funds.
Note: Bring government photo identification and call ahead, because Brooks County has not posted a complete visitor rule sheet online.
Request Brooks County Booking Records
For a Brooks County inmate record that is not online, use a focused public-records request. Georgia's Open Records Act gives broad access to public records, while O.C.G.A. section 50-18-71 covers response timing, fees, and electronic access rules. O.C.G.A. section 50-18-72 lists exemptions, including pending law-enforcement limits. The county policy says Brooks County is not required to create a new report or summary that does not already exist.
A good request names the person, gives the arrest date or date range, lists the arresting agency if known, and identifies the exact record sought. For a jail record, that might mean a booking sheet, charge page, bond record, or booking photograph. If the issue is a filed criminal case, the better path may be the Clerk of Court or PeachCourt, not the jail roster. For custody status and booking photos, the related Brooks County jail mugshots page explains the photo-specific rules.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency or jurisdiction that may keep a person in custody.
- PR bond
- Release on a promise to appear, if the court orders it.
- Redacted
- Information withheld from public display, such as the address field on sampled Brooks County roster rows.
- DOC
- The Georgia Department of Corrections, used for sentenced state-prison records after transfer.