Cobb County Adult Detention Center

New arrests go to the Adult Detention Center, 1825 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008. The Work Deployment Center on the same parkway takes only people already sentenced, either on supervised county work crews or on a work release placement that lets them leave each day for a job or classes.

Because everyone in work release has finished a case, no bond is posted for them. Its desk, 770-499-4340, handles scheduling and visits there. For someone just picked up, look in our inmate search and call 770-499-4200 if the result is blank or unclear. A person serving state time instead appears in the state offender lookup.

Payments go to the sheriff's Visitor's Center, 1877 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008, rather than through the tower doors at 1825. The sheriff's bonding page gives one number for that window, 770-499-4200, and lists no hours.

Phone ahead before heading up the parkway, with a state-issued ID card and the booking number in your pocket. Guard the printed receipt showing payer and case number; refunds flow solely to whoever it names. After money is accepted, staff still clear holds, process paperwork and return property, so the walk out can take hours. The parkway also houses the youth detention center and other county offices, so read the building numbers carefully.

Not at the facility. The sheriff takes full cash for a cash bond and refuses checks and credit cards at the window, so plan a bank stop first.

One online route exists: the sheriff names Cash Bond Online, 888-726-6301, for any bondable charge up to $2,500, a ceiling that counts surcharges and fees. That method lists the defendant as surety, so any refund goes to the defendant alone, never to the relative who paid. For anything above that ceiling, bring cash to the Visitor's Center or hire a registered surety company. Mixing methods across charges is allowed when several bonds are required.

Every instrument written at the Visitor's Center drags along state surcharges and a $20 sheriff's charge that never comes back, win or lose. Several charges can mean several instruments, multiplying both.

Before leaving the house, have the 770-499-4200 desk tally each instrument, surcharge and fee, then jot that grand total on paper. A person with a misdemeanor and a separate probation matter may need two separate payments, even on the same night. Having the full figure avoids a second trip to the ATM. Surety premiums are figured on the face amount plus surcharges, which also raises the total cost.

Any firm writing bonds here must register with the Sheriff's Office, which can suspend it under published rules. The sheriff's bonding page carries the current roster of approved companies.

State statute holds the premium to 15 percent of face value with surcharges folded in; alternatively a firm can bill $50 or more per charge, which may overshoot that percentage. The premium is almost never returned. Complaints about a company go to the sheriff's bonding investigator at 770-499-4623. Read every page of the indemnity paperwork: a cosigning relative may be on the hook for the full face amount should the defendant vanish.

Yes, if the home sits inside the county. Every person on the warranty or quitclaim deed and current tax bill must appear and sign at the facility.

Paperwork list: the deed and that tax bill, this month's mortgage statement, and ID issued by a government. Acreage elsewhere in Georgia qualifies as an out-of-county property bond, prepared by that other county's sheriff and delivered to Marietta sealed; an opened packet is refused. Pledging land is slower than cash or a surety, and a skipped hearing can put the home at risk.

For a misdemeanor other than DUI, a valid Georgia license can serve as collateral. The person must have spent at least five days in custody and face a bond of $1,000 or less before surcharges.

Missing court afterward can suspend the license, which then complicates work and family errands. Ask the desk at 770-499-4200 whether a given booking fits those terms, since several charges can push the total over the limit. This option suits low-level charges where cash is short. It does nothing for felonies, DUI, or anyone held on a hold from another agency.

Pretrial Services, a unit of Magistrate Court at 32 Waddell Street, Marietta, GA 30090, reviews people still in custody after their first appearance. A judge must approve anything it recommends.

Options include supervised release, release on a signature, a lower bond, or a 10 percent cash bond. A cosigner for that 10 percent option must meet terms such as a year of Georgia residence, steady work, no felony record and no pending bond. Supervision conditions ride along with that release, and breaking them can land the defendant back in a tower cell. Pretrial staff take calls at 770-528-8950. Relatives can share employment and address details that support a recommendation.

Georgia gives officers 48 hours to produce a warrantless arrestee before a judge (section 17-4-62) and 72 hours when a warrant came first (section 17-4-26). Magistrate Court on Waddell Street handles that hearing for most charges.

Its clerks keep weekday business hours, eight in the morning until five. Its Criminal Division, 770-528-8917, can give the hearing time. Relatives can bring pay stubs, a lease or school records that show local ties, which judges weigh beside the charge and history. Any amount set there is entered on the booking record soon after. Counsel may later petition to move that number up or down.

Judges set bond; deputies only process it. Section 17-6-1 lets magistrates handle most bonding, yet murder, rape, armed robbery, trafficking, aggravated child molestation and several others belong to Superior Court.

For a listed offense, defense counsel files a motion and the court must hear it within ten days. The Superior Court clerk at 70 Haynes Street, Marietta, GA 30090, 770-528-1300, dockets those filings. Ninety days behind the towers' walls with no indictment triggers a bond right under section 17-7-50. The bench balances community danger, the odds of flight and threats to witnesses. Prosecutors may answer with evidence about the alleged victim.

A charge reserved for Superior Court leaves the record blank until that judge acts. Detainers lodged by probation, the parole board, another county's sheriff or a federal agency keep the doors shut even after the local bond is satisfied.

Ring 770-499-4200 and ask staff to list each detainer, which office lodged it, and its reference number. Contact each of those offices directly, since paying one bond leaves the others untouched. Counsel can sometimes speed another county's pickup. Keep a written list of every hold by the phone; staff refer to them on each call, and having case numbers ready makes those conversations shorter.

No fixed schedule is quoted here, because judges in Marietta set figures case by case. Only the figure a magistrate enters onto the record counts.

A blank field usually means no judge has ruled; 770-499-4200 staff can tell you whether review has happened. Judges must weigh what a defendant can actually afford along with flight and safety worries, per section 17-6-1. Multiple counts carry multiple figures, and one traffic stop on I-75 can stack them fast. Counsel can ask a judge to reduce an amount that the family cannot reach.

Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Austell and Powder Springs each run a police department. Phone whichever department made the stop and request its report number plus the place the arrestee was driven.

Most adults still land at the parkway complex, so check our inmate search next. Ordinance and traffic charges may stay in that city's municipal court, which sets its own fines and dates. The booking entry names the arresting agency and the court. If a city charge and a state charge come from the same incident, each may carry its own bond, so ask which court controls each one.

The Department of Juvenile Justice runs the Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center, 1575 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008, 770-528-4287. It takes youths from Cherokee, Douglas, Paulding and this county.

Juvenile records stay sealed and off the adult search. A detention hearing follows soon after intake, and parents help by arriving with report cards, current prescriptions and a few trusted adults willing to supervise. Some violent charges move older teenagers into Superior Court, where adult bond rules govern. The state juvenile agency's headquarters answers 404-508-6500. Staff at the center can point parents to the right juvenile judge.

This circuit runs its own county Circuit Defender's Office instead of a state public defender office. Request counsel from the judge at first appearance; the office answers 770-528-1950.

Applicants fill out a Circuit Defender application and a sworn notice about finances, and the office usually responds within two business days. It never asks for or accepts payment, and any request for money should be reported to that number. Pay stubs or benefit letters speed the screening. Prompt appointment means a lawyer can argue bond sooner. Conflict cases go to outside counsel the office arranges.

Cash comes back once the court's appearance requirements are met. The person named on the receipt must collect it at the clerk's office, and section 17-6-4 lets unclaimed money escheat, so act promptly.

Money on a phone or canteen account is a deposit, never bond. Crooks scrape booking lists and call relatives demanding gift cards, wire transfers or app payments for a release; legitimate money goes only to the Visitor's Center, a court clerk or a surety you chose. Disconnect, then reach the jail through 770-499-4200 as printed here. To report the caller, the county police headquarters on Fairground Street takes complaints at 770-499-3900.

Under section 42-4-14, booking officers on County Services Parkway screen each detainee's immigration standing and notify federal authorities whenever lawful presence goes unproven. A Form I-247A from ICE can follow.

Federal regulation 8 CFR 287.7(d) lets that request extend custody as long as 48 hours beyond the state release moment, with Saturday, Sunday and holidays left out of the count. Posting bond can therefore end in a handoff to agents. Downtown Atlanta's ICE office answers 404-893-1290; moves appear afterward on the ICE locator site. Speak with immigration counsel before paying. That attorney will want any passport, green card and immigration filing receipts.

Cases opened by federal agents in the county head downtown to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Ted Turner Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-215-1600. Release there turns on the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. 3142, as read by a federal magistrate.

Commercial bonding companies have no role there; relatives may cosign instead. The Marshals Service holds federal defendants, sometimes in county jails that rent beds. Once a federal sentence is imposed, look up the designated institution on the Bureau of Prisons locator. Any parallel state charges continue in Marietta on their own track, with their own bond, so ask the defense lawyer how the two cases interact.

Most bookings at the Marietta complex begin with one of these agencies; true emergencies always go to 911.

• Sheriff's Office headquarters, which runs the County Services Parkway jail and serves warrants: 185 Roswell Street, Marietta, GA 30090; 770-499-4611.
• County police department, the patrol force for unincorporated neighborhoods: 545 South Fairground Street, Marietta, GA 30060; 770-499-3900.
• Georgia State Patrol Post 83, covering state roads north of I-285: 3330 Woodhaven Road, Atlanta, GA 30305; 404-624-7272.
• Adult Detention Center intake and custody desk: 1825 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008; 770-499-4200.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Atlanta field office: 180 Ted Turner Drive SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303; 404-893-1290.

Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Austell and Powder Springs field their own officers, and a city arrest may start in that city's municipal court. Inside I-285, troopers from the Atlanta post handle the interstates. Copies of incident reports must be requested from the arresting department itself, whose name appears on the booking entry.

Criminal matters here are divided among these benches.

• Magistrate Court, 32 Waddell Street, Marietta, GA 30090, 770-528-8900: warrants, first appearances, most bonds and Pretrial Services.
• State Court; reach its clerk on 770-528-2660. Docket: DUI, shoplifting, simple battery and other lesser counts, prosecuted by the Solicitor-General at 10 East Park Square, Suite 300, Marietta, GA 30090, 770-528-8500.
• Superior Court, 70 Haynes Street, Marietta, GA 30090; the clerk answers 770-528-1300: felonies, prosecuted by the District Attorney in the same building, 770-528-3080.
• Municipal courts in Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Austell and Powder Springs: city ordinance and traffic cases.

Citations, bond papers and summonses name the court and the date. Defendants held at the parkway complex are transported by sheriff's deputies to their hearings. Interstate traffic from I-75 and I-285 fills a large share of the misdemeanor calendar.

When a county officer, deputy or trooper makes the arrest, the file normally lands with the Solicitor-General, whose staff charge it on paper by accusation, skipping grand jurors entirely. Shoplifting, simple battery, DUI and traffic counts dominate that docket.

Citations from Smyrna, Kennesaw or another city department can open in that city's courtroom, where no jury sits; a jury request ships the file to Marietta Square. Arraignment is normally the opening State Court event. Plenty of cases close through a lesser count, a diversion agreement or First Offender status. A jury here has six members, and a speedy demand puts the prosecution on a clock running through the present term and the one after. Completing a First Offender sentence leaves no conviction on the record, which matters for jobs and housing applications later.

A plain misdemeanor tops out at a year in custody and $1,000; the high and aggravated tiers push the fine ceiling to $5,000. Many defendants instead serve probation.

For a first DUI, section 40-6-391 prescribes a jail range from ten days to one year, at least 24 hours served for real, along with a $300 to $1,000 fine, community service and a risk reduction course. Expect one to several months from arrest to resolution, depending on the calendar. Before pleading, ask counsel whether diversion or First Offender status fits. License consequences run on a separate administrative track.

Many misdemeanor defendants leave on a preset bond or a citation. People who stay locked up must reach a judge inside 48 hours after a warrantless arrest; with a warrant, the window is 72.

On Waddell Street, the magistrate announces the accusation, fixes or revisits the bond figure and describes how appointed counsel works. Hearing times for people at the parkway complex come from 770-499-4200, and the magistrate Criminal Division answers 770-528-8917. Cash, property and surety routes at the Visitor's Center are compared on our bail page. Pretrial Services may interview the defendant afterward for a possible supervised release.

The District Attorney at 70 Haynes Street, Marietta, GA 30090, 770-528-3080, brings Superior Court cases over burglary, any theft exceeding $1,500, drug distribution or trafficking, and aggravated assault.

A magistrate sets bond on most felonies at first appearance. Defense counsel may demand a commitment hearing that tests probable cause, a right that disappears once grand jurors return an indictment. Some defendants waive indictment and proceed by accusation. Ninety days in jail without indictment brings a right to bond. After arraignment the sides exchange discovery, and negotiated pleas settle most cases. Plan on six to eighteen months overall. Felony juries seat twelve people, and their verdict must be unanimous; the county's accountability courts offer treatment and supervision instead of prison for defendants they accept.

Seven crimes form Georgia's serious violent felony list, namely murder, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery. Bond for them rests with a Superior Court judge alone, who frequently denies it.

Apart from murder, each brings ten mandatory years that no parole, probation or suspension can shorten, and First Offender status is barred. Two convictions from the list mean mandatory life, parole unavailable. A murder count can end in a death sentence or in one of two life terms. Marsy's Law entitles victims to notice and a voice at bond hearings, pleas and sentencings. Expect such files to stay open anywhere from twelve to thirty-six months.

The county-run Circuit Defender's Office, 770-528-1950, represents adults facing possible jail who qualify financially. The circuit opted out of the state public defender system, so the county manages this office.

Applicants complete an application and a sworn notice, and the office generally follows up within two business days. Conflict cases, such as co-defendants with opposing interests, go to outside counsel it arranges. Capital prosecutions usually shift the defense to a statewide division that specializes in death penalty cases. Nobody from the office should ever ask for payment. Because the office is county-run, its lawyers appear daily in Magistrate, State and Superior Court, which helps them move quickly on bond reviews for clients still in custody.

Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Austell and Powder Springs each hold a municipal court for ordinance and traffic cases and some state misdemeanors written by their own officers. A judge alone decides them.

A jury demand transfers the file to State Court. Sentences there lean toward fines, volunteer hours or a term of probation. Skipping a city court date risks both a bench warrant and a suspended license. The citation names the court, date and courtroom, so keep it safe until the case closes. Each city sets its own payment windows and hours, which may differ from the Marietta Square courts. Officers from these departments may also write some state misdemeanors into their municipal courts, so the charge alone does not reveal which courtroom will hear it; the ticket does.

Federal indictments go to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Ted Turner Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-215-1600, in the Northern District's Atlanta Division. FBI, DEA, ATF and other agency arrests usually lead there.

Detention is argued at an initial hearing before a federal magistrate, who applies 18 U.S.C. 3142. Defendants short of money receive the Federal Defender Program or a CJA panel lawyer. Until trial, marshals decide where the defendant sleeps, often a leased cell in some county lockup. Designation after judgment can be tracked through the Bureau of Prisons locator. Any state charges proceed separately in Marietta.

For a noncitizen, pleading guilty or accepting certain diversion terms can unravel a green card, a visa or a pending petition, and defense counsel owes that warning up front.

Booking on County Services Parkway carries a section 42-4-14 immigration screen, sometimes followed by a Form I-247A. That form, per 8 CFR 287.7(d), can stretch custody 48 hours beyond release, leaving out Saturday, Sunday and holidays. ICE's Atlanta staff answer 404-893-1290, and transfers surface on the ICE locator site. Let an immigration attorney study plea language before anything is signed, because exact wording can control the consequence.

Short terms are usually served locally, and some sentenced people qualify for the sheriff's work release program if they hold a job or attend school. Longer felony sentences move people into state custody.

Deadlines for an appeal or a motion for new trial run short; bring them up with counsel within days. Release-date questions go to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles at 404-657-9450. The county's accountability courts offer treatment and supervision for accepted defendants. Following transport, the state offender lookup reveals which prison received the person. Keep the sentencing order and conditions together at home. Probation reporting dates and fees usually begin within days, so read each written condition the day it is handed over.

Most bookings at the Marietta complex begin with one of these agencies; true emergencies always go to 911.

• Sheriff's Office headquarters, which runs the County Services Parkway jail and serves warrants: 185 Roswell Street, Marietta, GA 30090; 770-499-4611.
• County police department, the patrol force for unincorporated neighborhoods: 545 South Fairground Street, Marietta, GA 30060; 770-499-3900.
• Georgia State Patrol Post 83, covering state roads north of I-285: 3330 Woodhaven Road, Atlanta, GA 30305; 404-624-7272.
• Adult Detention Center intake and custody desk: 1825 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008; 770-499-4200.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Atlanta field office: 180 Ted Turner Drive SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303; 404-893-1290.

Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Austell and Powder Springs field their own officers, and a city arrest may start in that city's municipal court. Inside I-285, troopers from the Atlanta post handle the interstates. Copies of incident reports must be requested from the arresting department itself, whose name appears on the booking entry.