Bryan County Police Blotter Search

Police blotter records in Bryan County are kept by the sheriff's office in Pembroke. Bryan County sits just west of Savannah and has been one of the fastest growing counties in Georgia. The sheriff's office tracks all arrests, incidents, and calls for service in the daily police blotter. You can request copies of these records through an open records request. Whether you need a single arrest report or want to review a full week of blotter entries, the Bryan County Sheriff's Office is the place to start. State databases add another layer of records from agencies like the Georgia State Patrol that work in the area.

Bryan County Police Blotter Office

Sheriff Mark Crowe runs the Bryan County Sheriff's Office from 95 Sgt Robert W Crapse Drive in Pembroke. The department handles law enforcement for all unincorporated parts of Bryan County. With the rapid growth in the Richmond Hill and western Bryan County areas, the police blotter volume has gone up a lot in recent years. Deputies patrol a wide area and log every call, arrest, and incident.

The daily police blotter from Bryan County lists each event with the date, time, type of call, location, and outcome. Arrests get extra detail including the suspect's name, charges filed, and booking information. All of this is public record under Georgia law. The sheriff's office processes open records requests during normal business hours at their Pembroke location.

The Georgia Sheriffs' Association directory can help you confirm the latest contact information for the Bryan County Sheriff's Office.

Access Bryan County Police Blotter

To get police blotter records from Bryan County, you make an open records request. Georgia law at O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 says that all documents kept by a government agency are public. The police blotter counts. So do arrest reports, incident logs, and call records. You can make your request by phone, mail, email, or in person at the Bryan County Sheriff's Office.

Tell the staff exactly what you are looking for. A name, date, or case number makes the search go faster. The agency has three business days to respond under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71. Copies cost up to 10 cents per page. The first 15 minutes of search time are free. After that, they can charge for staff time at the rate of the lowest-paid employee who can do the work.

Richmond Hill has its own police department for calls inside city limits. If the incident you are looking for happened in Richmond Hill, you may need to contact that agency rather than the Bryan County Sheriff's Office. Pembroke also has its own city police for incidents within town.

Note: Bryan County does not appear to post police blotter data online at this time.

State Records Tied to Bryan County

Several state systems hold law enforcement records from Bryan County. The EPORTS system stores incident reports, crash reports, and citations from the Georgia State Patrol. I-16 runs through Bryan County, so there is a lot of state patrol activity in the area. If a trooper wrote a report on the interstate, it goes into EPORTS. Incident reports cost $2.00 each. Crash reports run $5.00 for an uncertified electronic copy.

The fee schedule above comes from the Georgia Department of Public Safety. It shows what you will pay for different types of reports from the state patrol in Bryan County and across the state. Citations are free for the first one. Certified copies add $2.00 on top of the base price.

The GBI Records Request Center takes requests for state-level investigative records. If the GBI was involved in a case in Bryan County, their portal is where you submit the request.

Bryan County Records and the Law

Georgia's Open Records Act has a few provisions that affect what you can get from the Bryan County police blotter. The act at O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72 lists exemptions. Records from active investigations or pending prosecutions can be held back. This means if someone is arrested in Bryan County and the case has not gone to trial yet, the full investigative file may be sealed. The arrest entry in the blotter is still public though.

Crash reports need a statement of need. Personal information gets redacted. Confidential sources stay protected. Under O.C.G.A. § 35-3-34, criminal history records beyond Georgia felony convictions require the subject's consent. The Georgia Department of Corrections offender search is free and open to anyone for looking up state prison inmates from Bryan County.

Police Blotter Volume in Bryan County

Bryan County has grown fast. The population has more than doubled in recent decades, mostly in the areas near Savannah. This growth means more police blotter entries every year. The sheriff's office has added staff and resources to keep up. More people means more calls, more traffic incidents, and more arrests logged in the Bryan County blotter.

The Georgia Sheriffs' Association keeps updated info on all 159 sheriff offices in the state. Bryan County's growing population means their office details may change as the department expands its operations.

Cities in Bryan County

Pembroke is the county seat. Richmond Hill is the largest city in Bryan County by population. Neither city reaches the threshold for a separate page. Both have their own police departments that handle calls inside city limits. The sheriff covers everything outside those lines. If you are not sure which agency has the blotter record you need, call the Bryan County Sheriff first.

Nearby Counties

Bryan County sits east of I-16 near the Georgia coast. These counties share borders with Bryan County and have their own sheriff offices.