This is a private reference website, not a government office. We cannot confirm that someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule visitation, pull official booking records, or update a court file. Use the official Tift County and state contacts below for those requests.
Official Tift County Contacts
For local jail and records questions, start with the office that controls the record or proceeding.
- Tift County Sheriff's Office and Tift County Jail: 500 Morgan Drive, PO Box 46, Tifton, GA 31793. Administrative hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
- Jail, inmate, visitation, and bonding questions: call 229-388-6020. Use this line before visiting the jail, sending money, or relying on a bond amount.
- Warrants, subpoenas, civil papers, and reports: call 229-388-6021. The sheriff research identifies this as the records and warrant-related line.
- Clerk of Court Clay Pate: 237 E. 2nd Street, Tifton, GA 31794; 229-386-7810; Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The Clerk handles Superior and State Court filings.
- Magistrate Court: 225 Tift Avenue, Room 211, Tifton, GA 31794; 229-386-7907. Use this office for arrest warrants, first appearances, bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and warrant hearings.
- State Court and Solicitor-General: State Court handles many misdemeanor and traffic matters, and Solicitor-General Jason Hoffman prosecutes State Court misdemeanors. The solicitor contact in the research is 225 C Tift Avenue, Suite 3, Tifton, GA 31794; 229-386-7950.
- Felony prosecution: District Attorney Patrick Warren serves the Tifton Judicial Circuit; the Tift County contact number in the research is 229-386-7900.
Where to Look First
Use the path that matches the question you are trying to answer.
- For a person believed to be in Tift County Jail now, use the sheriff-linked roster explained in jail inmate records, then call 229-388-6020 if the online record is unclear.
- For booking photographs and Georgia limits on mugshot release, use jail roster mugshots and confirm any open-records request with the Sheriff's Office.
- For formal charges after booking, use court records after a jail arrest, PeachCourt where available, the Clerk of Court, Magistrate Court, State Court, the Solicitor, or the District Attorney.
- For the local detention facility, review the Tift County Jail page and then verify current visiting or bonding rules by phone.
- For a sentenced Georgia prisoner, use the Georgia Department of Corrections Offender Query.
- For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS. These are separate from the Tift County Jail roster.
- For custody-status notifications, use Georgia VINELink. Tift County Sheriff's Office announced VINE participation in March 2025, but VINE is not a full court-record search.