Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Senatobia, Mississippi, in Tate County, has about 8,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Tate County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Senatobia public records, Tate County arrest records, Mississippi arrest records and Mississippi inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Senatobia
The FBI lists Senatobia with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Senatobia Police Department. It reported 585 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Tate County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 186 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Tate County: Northwest Mississippi Community College at Senatobia (campus police).
How Many Arrests Senatobia Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Senatobia: 585 for 2025, 628 for 2024, 924 for 2023 and 666 for 2022.
Senatobia's 585 arrests in 2025 were down 6.8 percent from 628 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Senatobia reported 283 arrests, against 384 in the same months of 2025.
Across Tate County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 771 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Senatobia Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Senatobia is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 68 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 162 beds, and it ran at 42 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Tate County Sheriff's Office at tatecountysheriff.com/inmateRoster (page title: Tate County Sheriff MS), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Mississippi Department of Corrections lists its inmates at mdoc.ms.gov/inmate_search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Senatobia
For Senatobia the place to look is the custody page of the Tate County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail.
Mississippi does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Senatobia
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow, and it may charge the actual cost of search, review and copying.
- An arrest by the Senatobia police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofsenatobiams.gov/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Senatobia MS), phone 662-562-5643, 133 North Front St P.O. Box 1020 Senatobia, MS 38668-1020, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Tate County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tatecountyms.gov (page title: How do I request public records from the county? | Tate County Mississippi).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Criminal Information Center.
The Tate County guide covers every agency in the county: Tate County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Senatobia each year?
Senatobia reported 585 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Senatobia?
Look on the custody page of the Tate County Sheriff's Office at tatecountysheriff.com/inmateRoster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Senatobia booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tate County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Senatobia?
The court files of criminal cases in the Tate County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety Criminal Information Center is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Mississippi Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Senatobia?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Senatobia police for its own arrests, the Tate County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Mississippi Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 working days, or up to 14 where local rules allow; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tatecountyms.gov.
Is this the official Senatobia website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.