The Gilmer County Adult Detention Center is at 106 Brett Dickey Memorial Drive Ellijay, GA 30536. Jail staff answer at 706-635-4625. Other calls to the Gilmer sheriff is 706-635-4162.

Gilmer has no a web jail roster for Gilmer. Phone the jail at 706-635-4625 with the person's full name and Gilmer booking date, and the Gilmer desk can confirm whether they are in Gilmer custody.

After a state prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections Find an Offender search shows where they are held.

Gilmer County also posts recent arrests.

Under Georgia law, in Ellijay, a judge must see someone held in Ellijay within 48 hours if there was no warrant, or 72 hours if there was one. The Gilmer judge can order a Gilmer bond in cash, by bondsman or with Ellijay property.

• What a bondsman in Ellijay charges has a legal limit, and Ellijay families do not get it back.
• Some serious charges in Gilmer County need the superior court, so a Gilmer wait may be longer.
• Skipping a Gilmer court date brings a Gilmer warrant and a lost bond.

Read more on our Gilmer County bail page.

Call the Gilmer sheriff's office at 706-635-4162 to ask about an active Gilmer warrant. Before turning yourself in to the Gilmer jail, see a lawyer.

The Appalachian Circuit public defender covers Gilmer cases when a Gilmer judge finds the person cannot pay. A Gilmer applicant pays a $50 fee, though a judge may waive it.

Visit rules and times change, so call 706-635-4625 the day before you go to Ellijay. We explain in-person visits at the Gilmer jail and video visits from Ellijay.

Inmates in Ellijay can call out of the Gilmer jail, and incoming calls to the Ellijay jail are not allowed. Read about Gilmer jail calls, inmate email in Ellijay and Gilmer tablets.

Money sent to a Gilmer account covers snacks and soap at the Ellijay commissary. Stick to the deposit options the Gilmer jail posts. Read about Gilmer money transfers and the Ellijay commissary.

Print the person's full name on the Gilmer envelope with the Gilmer County Adult Detention Center address. Only plain paper goes to Ellijay; tape on mail to the Gilmer jail can get it sent back. Current Gilmer rules are on our mail page.

Children under 17 in Ellijay go to juvenile court. When a Ellijay child needs detention, Gilmer youth go to the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center. Parents can call the sheriff's office at 706-635-4162 to ask where the child is.

Call 706-635-4625 right away if your person in the Gilmer County Adult Detention Center has seizures or may hurt themselves in Ellijay. Tell the Gilmer desk note the Gilmer drug name and dose.

Federal charges from Gilmer County go to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Gainesville Division, at Sidney O. Smith Federal Building & US Courthouse, 121 Spring Street SE, Room 201, Gainesville, GA 30501-3789, 678-450-2760. A magistrate judge in Gainesville decides on release for a Gilmer defendant.

Before trial, the U.S. Marshals keep custody, at times in the Gilmer jail or another county jail. Once sentenced, check the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: Each time Ellijay jails a non-citizen, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 directs the Gilmer jail to check immigration status , after which Ellijay officers tell ICE if they lack status.
• Step 3: When ICE is interested, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Gilmer jail to keep them as long as 48 hours after release would happen.
• Step 4: Georgia's HB 1105 (2024) also added O.C.G.A. 42-1-11.5 and 36-80-23, which forbid local rules against helping ICE.
• Step 5: The Gilmer sheriff takes part in 287(g), per ICE.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Ellijay, search the online ICE locator for a Gilmer case, or call the Atlanta field office, which covers Ellijay, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

When a Gilmer case ends in prison, Ellijay holds the person in the Ellijay jail until the Georgia Department of Corrections picks them up. The Georgia Department of Corrections then takes the Gilmer inmate to a diagnostic center. After that, Ellijay prisoners go wherever the state assigns them. Gilmer families can look them up with GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, police in Ellijay may not post a Gilmer mugshot online. If you need a Gilmer mugshot, call the sheriff's office at 706-635-4162.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• East Ellijay Police Department: 706-276-3111
• Ellijay Police Department: 706-635-7430
• Gilmer County Sheriff's Office: 706-635-4162

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