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 October 4, 2026.
Gallatin, Tennessee, in Sumner County, has about 52,000 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 Sumner 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: Gallatin public records, Sumner County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Gallatin
The FBI lists Gallatin with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Gallatin Police Department. It reported 1,831 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 Sumner County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,377 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Sumner County: Drug Task Force's 18th Judicial District (other); Volunteer State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Gallatin 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.
- Gallatin: 1,831 for 2025, 1,879 for 2024, 1,993 for 2023, 2,151 for 2022, 2,095 for 2021 and 2,027 for 2020.
Gallatin's 1,831 arrests in 2025 were down 2.6 percent from 1,879 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Gallatin reported 1,198 arrests, against 1,428 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sumner County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 7,310 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gallatin Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gallatin 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 760 people, down from about 870 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 956 beds, and it ran at 79 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 Sumner County Sheriff's Office at sumnersherifftn.gov/inmates (page title: Inmates | Sumner County Sheriff's Office, TN), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Gallatin
For Gallatin the place to look is the case index of the Sumner County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sumnercountytn.gov/departments/courts, phone 615-452-4367).
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 Gallatin
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 Gallatin police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at gallatintn.gov/407/Police-Records (page title: Police Records | Gallatin, TN), phone 615-452-8267, 130 W. Franklin Street, Gallatin, TN 37066, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sumner County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sumner County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at sumnercountytn.gov/departments/courts, phone 615-452-4367.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sumnercountytn.gov (page title: Public Records Request | Sumner County, TN Government).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Sumner County guide covers every agency in the county: Sumner County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gallatin each year?
Gallatin reported 1,831 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gallatin?
Ask the Sumner County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sumnersherifftn.gov/inmates.
Where are people arrested in Gallatin booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sumner County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gallatin?
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 Gallatin?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gallatin police for its own arrests, the Sumner 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 sumnercountytn.gov.
Is this the official Gallatin 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.