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 2, 2026.
Morristown, Tennessee, in Hamblen County, has about 33,000 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 Hamblen 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: Morristown public records, Hamblen County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Morristown
The FBI lists Morristown with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Morristown Police Department. It reported 1,180 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 Hamblen County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,787 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hamblen County: the Wildlife Resources Agency's Region 4 (state agency); Walters State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Morristown 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.
- Morristown: 1,180 for 2025, 1,243 for 2024, 1,557 for 2023, 1,642 for 2022, 1,751 for 2021 and 1,527 for 2020.
Morristown's 1,180 arrests in 2025 were down 5.1 percent from 1,243 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Morristown reported 756 arrests, against 838 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hamblen County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,967 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Morristown Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Morristown 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 340 people, down from about 430 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 255 beds, and it ran at 135 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 Hamblen County Sheriff's Office at hamblencountytn.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff’s Office And Detention Center | Hamblen County Government), phone (423) 586-3781, 460 N Jackson Street Morristown, TN 37814, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Morristown
For Morristown the place to look is the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-3).
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 Morristown
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 Morristown police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at mymorristown.com/departments/police/police_records.php (page title: Records Division), phone (423)585-4673, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hamblen County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (423) 586-3781.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hamblen County guide covers every agency in the county: Hamblen County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Morristown each year?
Morristown reported 1,180 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Morristown booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hamblen County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Morristown?
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 Morristown?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Morristown police for its own arrests, the Hamblen 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 Morristown 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.