The process of restricting a past criminal arrest involves multiple agencies, including the prosecuting officer, the arresting agency, police department, or sheriff’s office, as well as the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI), which is the record keeping agency for all fingerprintable arrests in the State of Georgia.
An application for restriction must be made to each arresting agency. If you live in a large geographic judicial circuit, such as Augusta which includes Burke, Columbia, and Richmond Counties, an application for record restriction will need to be made with each sheriff’s office.