Gilmer County Busted Mugshots is a private reference service, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Questions about a person or document must go to the agency that created or holds it.
Gilmer County Office Contacts
Use the contact that matches the record. The Gilmer County Sheriff's Office handles administration and county detention through separate locations. Carla Nelson is the listed Sheriff's Office and 911 records clerk. Call the office before visiting because agency pages, hours, and routing can change.
Sheriff administration
Gilmer County Sheriff's Office
1 Broad Street, Suite 103
Ellijay, GA 30540
706-635-4162
Fax: 706-635-4172
Detention center
Gilmer County Adult Detention Center
106 Brett Dickey Memorial Drive
Ellijay, GA 30536
706-635-4625
Jail information and custody questions
Sheriff records
Carla Nelson, Records Clerk
cnelson@gilmersheriff.com
Sheriff's Office and 911 requests
Open-records page: county request instructions
Dispatch and warrants
Unified non-emergency dispatch
706-635-8911
Warrant line: 706-635-5775
Emergency: 911
The sheriff's request form lists a $2 Book-In Report, a $2 incident report, a $5 accident report, paper copies at 10 cents per page, and retrieval at $21.83 per hour after the first 15 minutes. It lists no separate booking-photo price. The form describes an acknowledgment and cost estimate within three business days, not a universal completion guarantee.
Which Office Should Hear From You?
Start with the subject of the request, not the word “mugshot.” A jail intake image and a city incident report are held by different custodians. A court result is not held by the jail, and a state prison profile is not a county booking record.
- For a current inmate, a recent booking, or the county booking-photo request, use the home page's Gilmer roster and records path, the detention line, or Carla Nelson.
- For a warrant concern, use the warrant line, GCSO Court Services, the issuing court, or a lawyer. The Most Wanted Fugitives page explains why no public name-search portal was found.
- For an Ellijay police report, contact EPD records at 197 North Main Street, Ellijay, GA 30540, 706-635-7430, with records hours listed as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
- For an East Ellijay police report, contact EEPD at 107 Oak Street, East Ellijay, GA 30540, 706-276-3111. BuyCrash is a crash-report route, not a booking-photo database.
- For the court result, use the Gilmer Clerk of Superior Court and the Georgia Judicial Gateway.
State and Federal Custody
A person who leaves county custody may belong to another record system. The Georgia Department of Corrections offender search covers state corrections custody or supervision, not every person arrested in Gilmer County. Use the federal sources only when the federal agency has custody.
- GDC Find an Offender is the state-prison and state-supervision route.
- BOP Inmate Locator covers federal Bureau of Prisons custody and does not provide a general local booking-photo roster.
- ICE Online Detainee Locator covers eligible immigration detention, not ordinary Gilmer jail status.
- Northern District of Georgia U.S. Marshals is the federal pretrial or transport contact context.
- Georgia VINE may provide custody notifications where a participating facility supports them.
Absence from one locator does not prove release from every form of custody. Compare the displayed status, location, date, and agency.
Questions About This Service
Messages about the private reference service can be directed through the contact method supplied by its operator. A message here cannot change an official record or obtain a response from GCSO, EPD, EEPD, GDC, a court, BOP, ICE, or USMS. For a correction to a government record, contact the originating office and preserve the request and response.