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 25, 2026.
Clarksville, Tennessee, in Montgomery County, has about 186,000 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 Montgomery 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: Clarksville public records, Montgomery County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Clarksville
The FBI lists Clarksville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Clarksville Police Department. It reported 4,391 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,308 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Montgomery County: Austin Peay State University (campus police); Drug Task Force's 19th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Clarksville 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.
- Clarksville: 4,391 for 2025, 5,558 for 2024, 5,342 for 2023, 5,081 for 2022, 6,650 for 2021 and 6,799 for 2020.
Clarksville's 4,391 arrests in 2025 were down 21 percent from 5,558 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Clarksville reported 2,349 arrests, against 3,148 in the same months of 2025.
Across Montgomery County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,699 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clarksville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Clarksville 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 450 people, down from about 580 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 880 beds, and it ran at 51 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at montgomerytn.gov/sheriff/jail-and-inmate-services (page title: Montgomery County, TN), phone 931-648-0611, 120 Commerce Street Clarksville, TN 37040, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Tennessee Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Clarksville
An arrest in Clarksville can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Montgomery County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerytn.gov/circuit/online-court-records, phone 931-648-5700); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at montgomerytn.gov/court/district-attorney, phone 931-648-5574).
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 Clarksville
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 Clarksville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at clarksvilletn.gov/954/Records-Division (page title: Records Division | Clarksville, TN), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 931-648-0611.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 931-648-5574, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at montgomerytn.gov/circuit/online-court-records, phone 931-648-5700.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clarksville each year?
Clarksville reported 4,391 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clarksville?
Ask the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at 931-648-0611; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Clarksville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clarksville?
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 Clarksville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clarksville police for its own arrests, the Montgomery 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 Clarksville 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.