Checking for a Warrant in Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg posts no public warrant search online. A Hattiesburg warrant check therefore means phoning the right desk. Start with the Hattiesburg court clerk, who answers status questions on almost every warrant. The other channels below are for documents, not live warrant status.
- Call the Hattiesburg Municipal Court clerk at (601) 545-4933 with the citation or case number.
- Ask whether the file shows a bench warrant, a traffic process, a capias, or a mittimus, and what its status is.
- Ask whether the Hattiesburg court takes payment, sets a new date, or requires an appearance.
- Use the public computer in the Hattiesburg court lobby if you are checking misdemeanor convictions in person.
- File a written records request with Hattiesburg police when you need the document itself.
- Call the Sheriff's Office at (601) 544-7800 only to learn whether a separate county process exists.
Hattiesburg Warrant Offices and the 2022 Complex
Hattiesburg pulled most of its justice functions onto one campus recently. The city opened its Public Safety Complex on September 27, 2022. Three buildings, three stories, roughly 90,000 square feet hold police administration, dispatch, records, the municipal court, court records, and a community room.
The city's announcement says the project folded in the original Methodist Hospital wing. The old Hattiesburg police and court building served from 1982 to 2016.
Hattiesburg Police and Municipal Court
Two Hattiesburg offices share the warrant workload, and they sit at the same address without being interchangeable. The court decides. The department serves. The Hattiesburg Warrants Unit assigns municipal criminal process, and city policy lets any sworn officer serve it.
Hattiesburg Police Department
701 James Street
Hattiesburg, MS 39401
(601) 544-7900
Note: Dispatch uses separate lines, (601) 545-4910 through 4913, and Hattiesburg detectives answer at (601) 545-4971.
Three Hattiesburg Warrant Addresses
No single Hattiesburg building answers everything. Warrant questions in Hattiesburg split across three destinations, and choosing the wrong one costs you a trip.
- 701 James Street is the Hattiesburg court and police destination, where a case status question belongs.
- 300 Klondyke Street is the Hattiesburg police records counter, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- 55 Arena Drive is the county Sheriff and detention address, not a Hattiesburg court office.
Records other than police records go to Hattiesburg City Hall at 200 Forrest Street, open weekdays on a schedule of its own. Note: Call ahead when a Hattiesburg warrant question spans both the court and the records counter, since one visit rarely covers both.
Hattiesburg Warrant Types
Hattiesburg's published legal-process policy names every warrant category the city maintains. Few municipalities publish a list this precise.
| Process | What It Covers | Where It Starts |
|---|---|---|
| Misdemeanor warrant | Hattiesburg misdemeanor charges brought by affidavit | Officer or citizen affidavit, then a judge |
| Traffic warrant | Unanswered Hattiesburg traffic citations | The citation and the missed court date |
| Bench warrant | Failure to appear or comply on a Hattiesburg case | The municipal judge holding the docket |
| Capias | Custody process tied to a charged matter | The Hattiesburg court, under Mississippi rules |
| Mittimus | Commitment into custody | The municipal judge |
| Search warrant | Authorized search, returned within seven days under Hattiesburg policy | A judge, on a showing of cause |
Hattiesburg Warrant and Police Record Requests
Prefer paper over phone? Hattiesburg gives you that choice. Hand a completed form to the records counter on Klondyke Street, or email it to records1@hattiesburgms.com instead. The city aims to fill routine requests within seven working days. A harder one earns a written explanation inside seven, with delivery inside fourteen.
Hattiesburg publishes the details on its records page, which lists the location, hours, and email route. The one-page form asks for your contact information, a description of the records, how many copies you need, and a delivery preference.
| Charge | Published Amount |
|---|---|
| Photocopies, 25 pages or fewer | Free |
| More than 25 pages | $0.15 per copy, counted from page one |
| Retrieval beyond one hour | Labor at the applicable hourly rate |
| Estimates of $50 or more | A deposit of half the estimate may be required |
Note: Before emailing a license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number, ask the Hattiesburg records office why an identifier is required.
Inside a Hattiesburg Warrant Record
Hattiesburg policy spells out the maintenance file field by field. That detail tells a caller exactly what a Hattiesburg clerk can read off it, so ask for the specific fields you want.
| Warrant reference | A number the city system generates when the process is entered |
|---|---|
| Incident number | The original report that links to the affidavit and the warrant |
| Legal process type | Recorded as criminal or traffic, with the nature of the document |
| Source | Officer or citizen, plus the affidavit type |
| Judge and issue date | The issuing judge's assigned number and the date signed |
| Status | A city code such as Non-collectable, with its change date |
| Teletype and cancel | Numbers and dates recording transmission to other agencies |
| Service updates | Five update sections for information gathered during service attempts |
Hattiesburg Warrant Fines and Payment Outages
Hattiesburg's court page reports that online fine payment is down during a software migration. Anyone paying a balance tied to a Hattiesburg warrant should call the court directly, since the self-service route is gone for now.
Call before you pay. Ask the clerk which payment method the court accepts today, get a confirmation or receipt number, and ask whether payment also addresses the failure-to-appear or bench process.
Software migrations end, so confirm the current arrangement with the Hattiesburg court rather than trusting any secondhand summary of its payment status.
How Hattiesburg Warrants Fit the County System
A Hattiesburg warrant travels a city chain before anyone else touches it. The process starts with an officer or a citizen affidavit, goes to a municipal judge, lands with the Warrants Unit, and gets served by a sworn city officer. The Sheriff's Office can enter the picture when a county process, a booking, or an interagency hold is involved, and city policy sends civil process through the Sheriff as well. County matters run on a separate track entirely. Justice Court takes county citations, the Circuit Clerk keeps the felony dockets, and Chancery Court handles support and contempt. For the full picture of which clerk holds what, see the Forrest County warrant records overview.
Hattiesburg Warrant Judges and Stale Rosters
Treat no judge's name on a Hattiesburg page as settled fact. The municipal court page still lists Wes Curry, yet the mayor's June 4, 2024 judicial appointment announcement named Brian R. Bledsoe and Gay L. Polk-Payton to the bench, with Mary Moore Conville serving as judge pro tempore. The two sources simply do not agree. The court's Hattiesburg address and phone number remain dependable, so call and ask the clerk who presides over your setting instead of assuming a roster is current.
Hattiesburg Warrant Records and Public Access
Warrant records in Hattiesburg sit under the same state framework that governs Forrest County, with the same exemptions attached. The city's own materials spell out the limits. Certain judicial records, investigative reports that go past the basic incident report, privileged records, and other statutory exemptions are all excluded.
Mississippi Code §§ 25-61-1 through 25-61-17 gives any person the right to inspect and copy public records, subject to each public body's written procedure, published costs, and the exemptions the law allows. If Hattiesburg denies a request, ask for the written reason and the exemption claimed.
Hattiesburg Warrant Records by the Numbers
Hattiesburg's size is exactly why it runs its own court instead of routing every warrant matter to Forrest County.
Census figures come from QuickFacts for Hattiesburg. No city source posts a warrant count, a clearance rate, or a downloadable list. Hattiesburg policy describes only a weekly internal process list the public never sees.