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 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Alcoa, Tennessee, in Blount County, has about 14,000 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 General files charges, a case in the Blount County Circuit and Chancery Courts. 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: Alcoa public records, Blount County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Alcoa
The FBI lists Alcoa with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Alcoa Police Department. It reported 693 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 Blount County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,665 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Blount County: Drug Task Force's 5th Judicial District and Knoxville Metropolitan Airport (other).
How Many Arrests Alcoa 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.
- Alcoa: 693 for 2025, 712 for 2024, 648 for 2023, 712 for 2022, 1,288 for 2021 and 1,674 for 2020.
Alcoa's 693 arrests in 2025 were down 2.7 percent from 712 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Alcoa reported 446 arrests, against 460 in the same months of 2025.
Across Blount County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,958 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Alcoa Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Alcoa 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 2024 the jail held about 340 people, down from about 610 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 350 beds, and it ran at 98 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Blount County Sheriff's Office at ils.bcso.com (page title: InmateNOW!), phone (865)273-5000, 123 Main St Somewhere, TN 12345, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Alcoa
Whether someone was arrested in Alcoa, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Blount County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at blounttn.gov/2156/Online-Court-Records-Search); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at blounttn.gov/315/District-Attorney-General, phone 865-273-5600).
Tennessee is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29 a search, through the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Alcoa
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the agency must answer within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Alcoa police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofalcoa-tn.gov/597/Public-Records (page title: Public Records | Alcoa, TN), phone 865-380-4700, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Blount County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (865)273-5000.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 865-273-5600, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Blount County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at blounttn.gov/2156/Online-Court-Records-Search.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at blounttn.gov (page title: Circuit Court Public Records Request & Policy | Blount County, TN).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Blount County guide covers every agency in the county: Blount County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Alcoa each year?
Alcoa reported 693 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Alcoa?
Ask the Blount County Sheriff's Office at (865)273-5000; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at ils.bcso.com.
Where are people arrested in Alcoa booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Blount County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Alcoa?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: TORIS lets anyone run a name-based criminal history search online, for $29. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Tennessee Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Alcoa?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Alcoa police for its own arrests, the Blount County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at blounttn.gov.
Is this the official Alcoa 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.