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 2024. 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 30, 2026.
La Follette, Tennessee, in Campbell County, has about 7,200 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 Campbell 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: La Follette public records, Campbell County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in La Follette
The FBI lists La Follette with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as La Follette Police Department. It reported 238 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Campbell County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 373 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests La Follette 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.
- La Follette: 238 for 2024, 268 for 2023, 386 for 2022, 418 for 2021, 540 for 2020 and 729 for 2019.
La Follette's 238 arrests in 2024 were down 11 percent from 268 in 2023.
Across Campbell County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 928 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in La Follette Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in La Follette 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 270 people, down from about 320 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 322 beds, and it ran at 84 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 Campbell County Sheriff's Office at campbellcountytn.gov/elected-officials/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Campbell County), phone 423-562-7446, 610 Main Street PO Box 82 Jacksboro, TN 37757, 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 La Follette
Whether someone was arrested in La Follette, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Campbell County Circuit and Chancery Courts, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-8).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at campbellmunicipalcourt.com/recordSearch.php?k=searchForm5020 (page title: Campbell Municipal Court | Record Search), belongs to a lower court, not to the Campbell County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
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 La Follette
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 La Follette police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at lafollettetn.gov/departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of LaFollette, TN), phone (423) 562-8331, 215 South Tennessee Avenue LaFollette, TN 37766, Monday-Friday, from 7:30 AM until 5:00 PM., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 423-562-7446.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Campbell County Circuit and Chancery Courts it is kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at campbellmunicipalcourt.com, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Campbell County guide covers every agency in the county: Campbell County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in La Follette each year?
La Follette reported 238 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in La Follette?
Ask the Campbell County Sheriff's Office at 423-562-7446; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at campbellcountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in La Follette booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in La Follette?
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 La Follette?
From the agency that made the arrest: the La Follette police for its own arrests, the Campbell 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 La Follette 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.