Clay County Busted Mugshots is a private reference resource, not a government office. Messages sent here cannot confirm custody, verify a release, post bond, or retrieve an official booking report or photograph. The responsible government office must answer those questions and supply those records.
Where Clay County Records Are Held
Use the office that created or currently holds the record. The Clay County Sheriff's Office and Clay County Jail are the official local contacts for booking and custody questions. Court offices handle case activity after booking, while state and federal agencies use separate systems.
Clay County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Locke Shivers
124 Thomas Street, Suite 1
Fort Gaines, GA 39851
229-768-2505
No separate records line, email, or records hours are published.
Clay County Jail
P.O. Box 22
Fort Gaines, GA 39851
229-768-2505
The official directory contact is for the county jail, not a state prison search.
Clay County Superior Court
210 Washington Street South, Suite 3
Fort Gaines, GA 39851
229-768-2631 · Fax 229-768-3047
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Clay County Magistrate Court
210 Washington Street South, Suite 5
Fort Gaines, GA 39851
229-768-2841 · Fax 229-768-3047
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
The sheriff's office has no separately published records email or records-office hours. For a written request, review the Georgia Open Records guidance and ask the office how it accepts the request. A narrow request should identify the person and approximate booking date and should ask for the booking report and associated photograph separately.
- For a Clay County booking report or photograph, start with the sheriff's office or jail contact above. The home page explains the request path and the limits of a missing online roster.
- For an arrest warrant, preliminary matter, or bail question, use Magistrate Court. For later criminal filings and disposition, ask Superior Court; the Most Wanted page explains the warrant-check cautions.
- For a recent arrest or custody update, call the official 229-768-2505 number. A message to this private resource cannot confirm that information.
- For a sentenced state prisoner or a Georgia Department of Corrections record, use the GDC Offender Query. A GDC-held record not shown there may require the GDC Open Records Request route.
- For an official court-access starting point, use the Georgia Courts e-access directory, then follow the provider or clerk instructions.
- For a federal prisoner, use the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator.
- For an immigration detainee, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator.