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.
Springfield, Tennessee, in Robertson County, has about 20,000 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 Robertson 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: Springfield public records, Robertson County arrest records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Springfield
The FBI lists Springfield with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Springfield Police Department. It reported 593 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 Robertson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 790 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Springfield 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.
- Springfield: 593 for 2025, 680 for 2024, 673 for 2023, 671 for 2022, 752 for 2021 and 911 for 2020.
Springfield's 593 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 680 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Springfield reported 351 arrests, against 399 in the same months of 2025.
Across Robertson County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,719 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Springfield Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Springfield 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 440 people, down from about 530 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 584 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 Robertson County Sheriff's Office at robertsonsheriff.com/jail-information (page title: Facility Information | Robertson County Sheriff's Office), phone 615-384-7971, 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 Springfield
For Springfield the place to look is the case index of the Robertson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at robertsoncountytn.gov/local_government/circuit_court_clerk/index.php, phone (615) 384-7864).
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 Springfield
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 Springfield police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at springfieldtn.gov/400/Records-Division-City-Court (page title: Records Division & City Court | Springfield, TN), phone 615-384-8422, 802 Willow Street, Springfield, TN 37172, Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Robertson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 615-384-7971.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Robertson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at robertsoncountytn.gov, phone (615) 384-7864.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Robertson County guide covers every agency in the county: Robertson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Springfield each year?
Springfield reported 593 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Springfield?
Ask the Robertson County Sheriff's Office at 615-384-7971; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at robertsonsheriff.com/jail-information.
Where are people arrested in Springfield booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Robertson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Springfield?
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 Springfield?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Springfield police for its own arrests, the Robertson 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 Springfield 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.