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.
Paris, Tennessee, in Henry County, has about 11,000 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 Henry 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: Paris public records, Henry County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Paris
The FBI lists Paris with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Paris Police Department. It reported 506 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 Henry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 607 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Paris 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.
- Paris: 506 for 2025, 554 for 2024, 581 for 2023, 561 for 2022, 610 for 2021 and 578 for 2020.
Paris's 506 arrests in 2025 were down 8.7 percent from 554 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Paris reported 265 arrests, against 371 in the same months of 2025.
Across Henry County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2020 on file reported 1,405 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Paris Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Paris 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 170 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 204 beds, and it ran at 82 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Paris
Whether someone was arrested in Paris, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Henry 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-24/our-staff).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at henrycounty.tennesseecourt.us (page title: Henry County Court | Records Access), phone 731-642-0461, belongs to a lower court, not to the Henry 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 Paris
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 Paris police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at paristn.gov/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Paris, TN), phone 731-642-2424, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Henry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- 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 Henry 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 henrycounty.tennesseecourt.us, phone 731-642-0461, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Henry County guide covers every agency in the county: Henry County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Paris each year?
Paris reported 506 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Paris booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Henry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Paris?
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 Paris?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Paris police for its own arrests, the Henry 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 Paris 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.