Pickens County Arrest Records

Georgia Arrest Records are those set of records that are kept and maintained by a competent authority as a means to inform the public of the criminal record of the person to whom the records pertain to and as a means to ensure that constitutional due process and other requirements of the law for the rights of the accused to be checked. These records are typically considered to be of public record and as such, they are considered to be available to the public unless they had been validly expunged for a valid reason at the request of the person to whom the records pertain to.

Arrest Records are typically requested by random individuals or residents as a means to ensure the security of the public, particularly on the days when days are busy and have to tend to other matters. The said records are instrumental in finding out the truth about a person for whatever legal reasons. The said records are instrumental in finding out the truth about a person for whatever legal reasons. In the state of Georgia, in particular, the county of Pickens, the primary repository of arrest records would be the sheriff office.

This is because of the Office of the Sheriff is the frontline agency in charge of law enforcement within the borders of Pickens County. In pursuit of their mandate, the sheriff and his deputies are the ones that are often asked to enforce arrests, serve warrants, and to provide service to court during hearings. In addition, the sheriff is the county jailer, in charge of the jails of the county where the accused would stay pending final judicial disposition of their case by the magistrate court.

A person who desires to obtain a copy of their arrest records from the Office of the Sheriff in Pickens County would have to follow a certain set of procedure and to pay a certain fee. The division of the Office of the Sheriff that is in charge of the release of such records is the Georgia Criminal Information Center. The person who desires to obtain a record of his or her arrest record would first have to fill out a form provided for by the office of the sheriff. Once completed, this form must be submitted, either in person, through fax, or through mail. It must be noted that the fee is due the moment that the request was received so it may be advisable to submit the form in person to the office. It must also be noted that there is no uniform fees for record search because the fees would depend on the type of search, though a full search typically costs around fifty five dollars.

It would take anywhere between one to two business days for the record search to be completed. Once completed, the record must be signed for by the person who requested the information for the same to be released.

A more efficient search would be to use the World Wide Web. Although it is possible that the information that would be yielded by such an online search would not be as through as the records that the office of the sheriff could provide, the information from such websites are typically more numerous because they are not limited to just arrest records. It must be noted that under Georgia law, electronic copies of arrest records may be made even without the consent of the person to whom the records pertain to, making an online search the only way that a business owner could be certain that the information submitted by individuals is indeed the right information. Such searches over the net are usually free of charge and near instantaneous with their results in addition to the fact that they do not require the searcher to leave the comforts of their own homes.

The procedure to follow to obtain your arrest records from the Pickens County Sheriff Office is as follows

• – Obtain the Criminal History Consent
• – Form from the Office of the Sheriff
• – Submit the form to the local Georgia Criminal Information Center either by person, through fax, or through mail.
• – Pay the required fee
• – Wait for one to two business days for the search to be completed.
• – Once completed, head over to the Office of the Sheriff and sign for the records for it to be released.

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Pickens County Sheriff Arrests

For further questions, queries, and clarifications, the following links may be of further assistance.

• – Pickens County
• – Sheriff Office
• – District Attorney
• – Public Defender
• – Magistrate Court
• – Superior Court