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 26, 2026.
Rockwood, Tennessee, in Roane County, has about 5,700 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 Roane 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: Rockwood public records, Roane County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Rockwood
The FBI lists Rockwood with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Rockwood Police Department. It reported 283 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 Roane County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,383 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Roane County: Drug Task Force's 9th Judicial District (other); Roane State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Rockwood 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.
- Rockwood: 283 for 2025, 390 for 2024, 376 for 2023, 482 for 2022, 499 for 2021 and 558 for 2020.
Rockwood's 283 arrests in 2025 were down 27 percent from 390 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Rockwood reported 183 arrests, against 203 in the same months of 2025.
Across Roane County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,752 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Rockwood Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Rockwood 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 190 people, down from about 310 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 170 beds, and it ran at 109 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 Roane County Sheriff's Office at roanecountytn.gov/sheriffs-department-and-jail (page title: Sheriffs Department and Jail | Roane County Government), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Rockwood
Whether someone was arrested in Rockwood, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Roane County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at roanecourts.com, phone (865) 376-4458); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-9).
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 Rockwood
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 Rockwood police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofrockwoodtn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Public-Records-Requ... (page title: ROCKWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST), 115 N. Front Street, Rockwood, TN 37854, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Roane 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: the Roane County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at roanecourts.com, phone (865) 376-4458.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Roane County guide covers every agency in the county: Roane County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Rockwood each year?
Rockwood reported 283 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Rockwood?
Ask the Roane County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at roanecountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Rockwood booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Roane County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Rockwood?
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 Rockwood?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Rockwood police for its own arrests, the Roane 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 Rockwood 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.