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.
Sevierville, Tennessee, in Sevier County, has about 18,000 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 Sevier 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: Sevierville public records, Sevier County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Sevierville
The FBI lists Sevierville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Sevierville Police Department. It reported 1,244 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,223 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Sevier County: Drug Task Force's 4th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Sevierville 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.
- Sevierville: 1,244 for 2025, 1,461 for 2024, 1,675 for 2023, 2,331 for 2022, 1,973 for 2021 and 2,206 for 2020.
Sevierville's 1,244 arrests in 2025 were down 15 percent from 1,461 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Sevierville reported 873 arrests, against 854 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sevier County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,916 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sevierville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sevierville 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 360 people, down from about 560 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 628 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office at isoms.seviercountytn.org:9000/Jail (page title: Inmates | ISOMS Portal), 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 Sevierville
Whether someone was arrested in Sevierville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Sevier County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at seviercountytn.gov/government/county_officials/circuit_court_clerk.php, phone 865.453.5536); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at seviercountytn.gov/government/justice_and_the_law/district_attorney..., phone (865) 429-7021).
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 Sevierville
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 Sevierville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at seviervilletn.org/613/Records-Information (page title: Records Information | Sevierville, TN), phone 865-453-7310, 300 Gary Wade Blvd Sevierville, TN 37862, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, (865) 429-7021, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sevier County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at seviercountytn.gov, phone 865.453.5536.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Sevier County guide covers every agency in the county: Sevier County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sevierville each year?
Sevierville reported 1,244 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sevierville?
Ask the Sevier County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at isoms.seviercountytn.org:9000/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Sevierville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sevierville?
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 Sevierville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sevierville police for its own arrests, the Sevier 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 Sevierville 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.