The Whitfield County Detention Facility is at 805 Professional Blvd. Dalton, GA 30720. Call the Whitfield jail at 706-278-1233. The Whitfield sheriff's main line is 706-278-1233.

Type the last name into Whitfield County Inmate Search. A late-night arrest in Dalton can take hours to show up while Whitfield booking is done.

Whitfield County also posts recent arrests.

By state law, in Whitfield County, a judge must see a Whitfield arrestee within 48 hours if there was no warrant, or 72 hours if there was one. The Whitfield judge may set a Whitfield bond in cash, by bondsman or with Dalton property.

• What a bondsman in Dalton charges has a legal limit, and a Whitfield family never gets that fee back.
• A few grave charges in Dalton need the superior court, so a Whitfield wait may be longer.
• Missing a court date in Whitfield County brings a Whitfield warrant and the bond is lost.

More detail is on our Whitfield County bail page.

Call the Whitfield sheriff's office at 706-278-1233 to check on a warrant in Dalton. Before turning yourself in to the Whitfield jail, see a lawyer.

The Conasauga Circuit public defender takes Whitfield cases once a judge in Dalton rules they cannot pay. Someone applying in Dalton owes a $50 fee, unless a judge waives it.

Visiting hours can change, so call 706-278-1233 before any trip to Dalton. We explain in-person visits at the Whitfield jail and screen visits from Dalton.

Inmates in Dalton can call out of the Whitfield jail, and incoming calls to the Dalton jail are not allowed. We cover Whitfield jail calls, messages in Dalton and Whitfield tablets.

Money sent to a Whitfield account covers snacks and soap at the Dalton commissary. Use only the ways the Whitfield jail lists. Read about Whitfield account funding and the Dalton canteen.

Print the person's full name on the Whitfield envelope above the Dalton jail address. Use plain paper for the Whitfield jail; stickers or tape on a Whitfield letter gets it bounced. See the Dalton section of our mail page.

Children under 17 in Dalton go to juvenile court. If a Whitfield youth must be held, Whitfield youth go to the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 706-278-1233 to ask where the child is.

Call 706-278-1233 quickly if your person in the Whitfield County Detention Facility has diabetes or may hurt themselves in Dalton. Ask the Dalton nurse write down the medicine and dose.

If the charge is federal, Whitfield cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division, at Harold L. Murphy Federal Building & US Courthouse, 600 East First Street, Rome, GA 30161-3149, 706-378-4060. The Rome magistrate judge decides if the Whitfield defendant can go home.

Federal detainees stay with the U.S. Marshals, sometimes in a county jail. After sentencing, use the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: For any non-citizen held in Whitfield County, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 tells Whitfield staff to confirm their status , after which Dalton officers tell ICE if they lack status.
• Step 3: If ICE wants the person, it sends Form I-247A, a request to keep them up to 48 hours past normal release.
• 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: Per ICE, Whitfield County has a 287(g) agreement.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Dalton, try the ICE detainee locator for a Whitfield case, or phone the Atlanta field office, which covers Dalton, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

Once a Whitfield judge gives a prison sentence, Whitfield County keeps them in the Dalton jail until the Georgia Department of Corrections picks them up. Next, the Georgia Department of Corrections moves the person from Dalton to a diagnostic center, and the Dalton inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Whitfield County families can track them with GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Whitfield sheriff and city police cannot post a Whitfield mugshot online. For a copy of a Whitfield mugshot, call the sheriff's office at 706-278-1233.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Cohutta Police Department: 706-694-3330
• Dalton Police Department: 706-278-9085
• Tunnel Hill Police Department: 706-673-5535
• Varnell Police Department: 706-694-3141
• Whitfield County Sheriff's Office: 706-278-1233

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