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.
Goodlettsville, Tennessee, in Davidson County, has about 17,000 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 Davidson 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: Goodlettsville public records, Davidson County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Goodlettsville
The FBI lists Goodlettsville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Goodlettsville Police Department. It reported 312 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Davidson County: the Metropolitan Nashville Park Police and Nashville International Airport (other); the Wildlife Resources Agency's Region 2, the Department of Correction, Internal Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Crime Unit and Tennessee Board of Regents (state agency); Tennessee State University, Nashville State Community College and Vanderbilt University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Goodlettsville 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.
- Goodlettsville: 312 for 2025, 265 for 2024, 387 for 2023, 386 for 2022, 720 for 2021 and 687 for 2020.
Goodlettsville's 312 arrests in 2025 were up 18 percent from 265 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Goodlettsville reported 248 arrests, against 147 in the same months of 2025.
Across Davidson County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 20,846 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Goodlettsville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Goodlettsville 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 2,270 people, down from about 2,860 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 2,628 beds, and it ran at 86 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 Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search at dcso.nashville.gov/Search/RecentBookings (page title: Davidson County Sheriff | Active Inmate Search), phone 615-862-8123, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Goodlettsville
An arrest in Goodlettsville can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Davidson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sci.ccc.nashville.gov, phone 615.862.5601); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at da.nashville.gov, phone 888-277-8366).
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 Goodlettsville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Goodlettsville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at goodlettsville.gov/179/Records (page title: Records Division | Goodlettsville, TN), phone (615) 851-3745, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 615-862-8123.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 888-277-8366, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Davidson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at sci.ccc.nashville.gov, phone 615.862.5601.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.nashville.gov (page title: Inmate and Other Public Records Requests | Davidson County Sheriff | Nashville Tennessee).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Davidson County guide covers every agency in the county: Davidson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Goodlettsville each year?
Goodlettsville reported 312 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Goodlettsville?
Look on the custody page of the Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search at dcso.nashville.gov/Search/RecentBookings, or call 615-862-8123. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Goodlettsville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Goodlettsville?
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 Goodlettsville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Goodlettsville police for its own arrests, the Davidson County Sheriff - Active Inmate Search 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 sheriff.nashville.gov.
Is this the official Goodlettsville 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.