Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 24, 2026.
Tate County, Mississippi, has about 29,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tate County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one campus agency. An arrest 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 each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Tate County public records, Mississippi arrest records, Mississippi inmate search and Mississippi criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tate County
The Tate County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tate County. It reported 186 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Senatobia, 8,428 residents: 585 arrests reported for 2025.
- Coldwater, 1,326 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2021.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Tate County: Northwest Mississippi Community College at Senatobia (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tate County
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.
- Tate County Sheriff's Office: 186 for 2025, 168 for 2024, 78 for 2023 and 90 for 2021; 2022 is missing months.
- Coldwater: 3 for 2021.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 771 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 771 in 2025 against 796 in 2024, down 3.1 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 353 arrests, against 444 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tate County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tate County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
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 Tate County
For Tate County 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 Tate County
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 Tate County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Senatobia or Coldwater: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Northwest Mississippi Community College at Senatobia: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Tate County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Tate County: Senatobia and Coldwater.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Tate County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Tate County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Senatobia (8,428)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tate County each year?
Senatobia reported 585 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 771 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tate County?
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 Tate County 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 Tate County?
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 Tate County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tate County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Tate County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.