Outstanding Warrants in Horry County
A warrant stays active until the record shows it served, recalled, or resolved. That is the whole idea. The Horry County Sheriff posts no name-search list, no results table, and no refresh timestamp. What the Sheriff does publish is a Warrant Division phone number for outstanding warrant questions, but calling it is not the same as searching a database. When you have case paperwork, go to the issuing court first. A Circuit or Family Court matter runs through the matching Clerk division in Horry County. A magistrate or municipal matter belongs with that named court. A docket can help you find the file. Only the issuing court or the agency serving the warrant can explain where the case stands right now.
No Official Horry County Active Warrant List Found
The Sheriff's current warrant info page gives (843) 915-8347 for outstanding-warrant questions and (843) 915-5688 for anonymous tips. Neither line comes with search fields or a roster. The county Sheriff app covers bookings and releases, a registry, forms, and updates. It has no warrant-search feature either. South Carolina's statewide Public Index works for Circuit cases, not for active warrants. That gap is worth noticing. A commercial site, a mugshot feed, an old social post, or a name in a third-party index cannot replace the issuing court in Horry County. For your own matter, call the official number and ask which court and process apply.
The Horry County Active Warrant List
With no published Horry County warrant list, there is no refresh schedule, court-coverage note, or status field to describe. Horry's FY2025 financial plan mentions a civil and warrant P1 database update. The budget material says nothing about public search access, a current schema, or any portal. So it is not evidence that one exists. If a search engine dangles an Horry County list, check who published it and when. Never feed another person's private data into a commercial search. The county's route remains the Sheriff Warrant Division or the issuing court. Keep in mind that a public record and live service status can sit in different systems.
Historical Horry County Warrant Counts Need Context
Horry County's official report for FY2022–23 through May logged 2,039 criminal warrants received, 2,207 served, and 1,717 marked UTL. Family Court warrants appeared separately: 141 received, 89 served, 90 UTL, plus 50 extraditions. Those are period totals. They do not count warrants still open now.
The county report is a historical workload snapshot, not an outstanding-warrant count.
In that Horry County report, UTL means unable to locate. It does not mean a court ended the warrant.
Active Warrants: What They Show
When a warrant record is released, it may show a court, case, charge, date, bond, and service return. South Carolina's blank bench-warrant form carries those administrative fields plus sensitive identifiers. A docket entry is not a live Horry County service status.
| Active | Ask the court or Warrant Division what status the controlling system currently shows. |
|---|---|
| Served | A service event may have a return or court entry that needs confirmation. |
| UTL | A historical workload code meaning unable to locate, not cancellation. |
| Recalled or quashed | A court action that should be verified with the issuing court. |
Do not read a Horry County status into an aggregate report, an old case event, or a blank portal response.
Horry County Warrant Roundups
Horry County has no amnesty week, warrant-clearing event, or roundup program on the books for 2024 through 2026. That could change, of course, since the county could announce one at any time. For now, no posted program date or eligibility rule exists to lean on. So treat a roundup rumor as just that. Waiting for one only raises the odds of an avoidable encounter over an active warrant. Call the issuing court instead and ask about the ordinary route for resolving an outstanding warrant. For questions about an old program, ask Horry Public Information for a dated notice rather than trusting an unverified flyer.
Horry County FOIA for Aggregate Warrants
South Carolina FOIA lets you request an existing non-exempt report or policy. A tight request might ask for monthly criminal-warrant counts in Horry County, received, served, and UTL, plus the definitions and whether carryover is included. Do not ask the county to merge systems into a new live list or to disclose private names. Horry Public Information charges page and staff-time fees. Check the current schedule first. The county's online instruction says to email FOIA@horrycountysc.gov if confirmation does not arrive within 24 business hours. That is only an acknowledgment route. It does not promise records within a day. Horry Public Information describes the office and its records-request route.
Ask for existing aggregate records and segregable portions, not a named roster.
Horry County Warrant Data and Tip Notices
Horry County publishes no most-wanted roster and no full list of active warrants, so treat those three phrases as separate things. A fugitive notice, where one exists, is a handpicked selection made for public safety. A true warrant list would need a stated court scope and an update rule. Service statistics, by contrast, measure workload rather than list people. If you want to report something, the Horry County Sheriff's Office takes anonymous tips. A tip is not a way to ask about your own record, though. For the official tip channels, see the Horry County most wanted page, which repeats names and photos nowhere.
Horry County Criminal and Family Warrants Differ
The monthly Horry report splits criminal warrant activity from Family Court warrant activity, and the difference matters when you call. Family Court matters, including purge processes, run through the Clerk's Family Court division, which follows its own privacy rules. The criminal Warrant Division phone line cannot substitute for a family-court clerk. An empty Public Index result settles nothing about a protected family record. So work from the court named in the person's own notice. Ask the Clerk which division holds the file and what public information that office can share. Horry County's clerks explain routing and procedure. They will not advise you whether to plead or accept a bond condition. For a legal call on a specific order, talk to counsel. The county report, in short, keeps Family Court warrant work separate from criminal service totals.
Finding Your Own Name on the List
Horry County posts no official public roster you can check by name. A relative can still help. Have that person use your paperwork and call the court or the Sheriff's Warrant Division with you. Note that HCSO bars one person from requesting its local records-check service on another's behalf, a rule that does not stop a family member from simply helping you make contact.
Do not pay an unsolicited caller. Horry says bond payments are made in person at the Magistrate’s Office, and the Sheriff does not collect bond by phone.
For a Circuit case, the Clerk can route your call to General Sessions or another division. A municipal ticket belongs with the city court. Keep every instruction and receipt. Ask the issuing court whether a separate appearance or recall order remains open.
Horry County FOIA Confirmation Is Not Warrant Status
A FOIA request does not search a live warrant system. Keep that straight in Horry County. The county's online confirmation page only explains how to follow up when an acknowledgment never arrives. The request itself can carry scope limits, fees, redactions, and exemptions. If your own current matter needs an answer, contact the issuing court rather than waiting on a FOIA response. One timing note helps. Horry County asks requesters to use the posted Public Information contact if the submission confirmation has not arrived within 24 business hours.
Note: A FOIA confirmation in Horry County means the request route worked, not that records exist or a warrant is active.