The Fulton County Jail is at 901 Rice Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. Fulton County also has Doraville Detention Center, Fulton County Marietta Jail. Jail staff answer at 404-613-2024. For other Fulton sheriff business is 404-612-3280.

Enter the last name in Fulton County Inmate Search. A late-night arrest in Atlanta can take hours to show up while Fulton booking is done.

In Fulton County, a judge must see a Fulton arrestee within 48 hours if there was no warrant, or 72 hours if there was one. The Fulton judge can allow a Fulton bond in cash, by bondsman or with Atlanta property.

• What a bondsman in Atlanta charges has a legal limit, and a Fulton family never gets that fee back.
• Certain serious Fulton charges need the superior court, so a Fulton wait may be longer.
• Skipping a Fulton court date may lead to a Fulton warrant and forfeited bond money.

See our Fulton County bail page.

Contact the Fulton sheriff's office at 404-612-3280 to ask about an active Fulton warrant. A Fulton lawyer can help plan a surrender.

The Atlanta Circuit public defender takes Fulton cases once a judge in Atlanta rules the person cannot pay. A Fulton applicant owes a $50 fee, though a judge may waive it.

Visit rules and times change, so call 404-613-2024 before any trip to Atlanta. We explain in-person visits at the Fulton jail and remote visits from Atlanta.

Inmates in Atlanta can call out of the Fulton jail, but family cannot ring in to Atlanta. Read about Fulton jail calls, inmate email in Atlanta and Fulton tablets.

Money sent to a Fulton account buys snacks and soap through the Fulton commissary. Stick to the deposit options the Fulton jail posts. See our pages on Fulton deposits and the Atlanta jail store.

Put the person's full name on the Fulton envelope with the Fulton County Jail address. Use plain paper for the Fulton jail; tape on mail to the Fulton jail can get it sent back. Current Fulton rules are on our mail page.

Fulton youth under 17 go to juvenile court. If a Fulton youth must be held, Fulton youth go to the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 404-612-3280 to ask where the child is.

Ring 404-613-2024 right away if your person in the Fulton County Jail has diabetes or may hurt themselves in Atlanta. Tell the Fulton desk write down the medicine and dose.

If the charge is federal, Fulton cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, at Richard B. Russell Federal Building & US Courthouse, 75 Ted Turner Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30303-3309, 404-215-1600. The Atlanta magistrate judge decides if the Fulton defendant can go home.

Before trial, the U.S. Marshals keep custody, at times in the Fulton jail or another county jail. After sentencing, use the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach federal systems ICE checks.
• Step 2: For any non-citizen held in Fulton County, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 requires the Atlanta jailer to check legal status , and the Atlanta jailer informs ICE if status is missing.
• Step 3: If ICE wants the person, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Fulton jail to keep them as long as 48 hours after release would happen.
• Step 4: The 2024 law HB 1105 also wrote O.C.G.A. 42-1-11.5 and 36-80-23, which forbid local rules against helping ICE.
• Step 5: ICE does not list Fulton County in 287(g); ask the sheriff to confirm.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Atlanta, check the ICE online locator for the Fulton detainee, or phone the ICE Atlanta field office about Atlanta, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

After a Fulton County state prison sentence, Atlanta holds the person in the Fulton County Jail until state officers take them. The Georgia Department of Corrections sends the Fulton prisoner to a diagnostic center, and the Atlanta inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Fulton families can look them up with GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, police in Atlanta may not post a Fulton mugshot online. For a copy of a Fulton mugshot, phone the sheriff's office at 404-612-3280.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Alpharetta Department of Public Safety: 678-297-6300
• Atlanta Police Department: 404-546-2452
• Brookhaven Police Department: 404-637-0600
• Chattahoochee Hills Police Department: 770-463-5550
• CSX Railroad Police Department: 404-350-5217
• East Point Police Department: 404-559-6200
• Fairburn Police Department: 770-964-1441
• Fulton County Police Department: 404-613-5711
• Fulton County Sheriff's Office: 404-612-3280

Where Atlanta has no city police, deputies respond. Dial 911 in an emergency.