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 30, 2026.
Milan, Tennessee, in Gibson County, has about 8,300 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 Gibson 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: Milan public records, Gibson County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Milan
The FBI lists Milan with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Milan Police Department. It reported 482 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 Gibson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 894 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Milan 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.
- Milan: 482 for 2025, 456 for 2024, 501 for 2023, 424 for 2022, 475 for 2021 and 442 for 2020.
Milan's 482 arrests in 2025 were up 5.7 percent from 456 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Milan reported 281 arrests, against 335 in the same months of 2025.
Across Gibson County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,798 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Milan Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Milan 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 250 people, down from about 290 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 329 beds, and it ran at 76 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 Gibson County Sheriff's Office at gibsoncountysheriff.com/jail (page title: Jail | Gibson County Sheriff), phone 866-340-7879, 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 Milan
An arrest in Milan can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Gibson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tncourts.gov/node/9782335); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-28).
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 Milan
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 Milan police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofmilantn.com/city-departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Milan TN), phone 731-686-3309, 7029 Telecom Drive Milan, TN 38358, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Gibson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 866-340-7879.
- 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: the Gibson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782335.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Gibson County guide covers every agency in the county: Gibson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Milan each year?
Milan reported 482 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Milan?
Ask the Gibson County Sheriff's Office at 866-340-7879; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gibsoncountysheriff.com/jail.
Where are people arrested in Milan booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gibson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Milan?
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 Milan?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Milan police for its own arrests, the Gibson 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 Milan 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.