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 26, 2026.
Ashland City, Tennessee, in Cheatham County, has about 5,700 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 Cheatham 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: Ashland City public records, Cheatham County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Ashland City
The FBI lists Ashland City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ashland City Police Department. It reported 361 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 Cheatham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 886 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Ashland City Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Ashland City: 361 for 2025, 352 for 2024, 543 for 2023, 721 for 2022, 880 for 2021 and 852 for 2020.
Ashland City's 361 arrests in 2025 were up 2.6 percent from 352 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Ashland City reported 268 arrests, against 286 in the same months of 2025.
Across Cheatham County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,280 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ashland City Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Ashland City 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 2024 the jail held about 89 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 116 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Cheatham County Sheriff's Office at cheathamcountytn.gov/faqs_sheriff.html (page title: Cheatham County, TN), phone (615) 792-2098, 200 Court Square Ashland City, TN 37015, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Ashland City
An arrest in Ashland City can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Cheatham County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/county-clerks-locations.html, phone (865) 457-6226); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-23/ashland-city-office, phone 615 792-7500).
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 Ashland City
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 Ashland City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ashlandcitytn.gov/police/page/records (page title: Records | Ashland City), phone 615-792-5618, 233 Tennessee Waltz Parkway Ashland City, TN 37015, Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (615) 792-2098.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 615 792-7500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cheatham County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tn.gov, phone (865) 457-6226.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Cheatham County guide covers every agency in the county: Cheatham County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Ashland City each year?
Ashland City reported 361 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ashland City?
Ask the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office at (615) 792-2098; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cheathamcountytn.gov/faqs_sheriff.html.
Where are people arrested in Ashland City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ashland City?
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 Ashland City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ashland City police for its own arrests, the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Ashland City 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.