Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 30, 2026.
Campbell County, Tennessee, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest 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 Campbell County Circuit and Chancery Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Campbell County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Campbell County
The Campbell County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Campbell County. It reported 373 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Campbell County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- La Follette, 7,194 residents: 238 arrests reported for 2024.
- Jacksboro, 2,248 residents: 101 arrests reported for 2024.
- Caryville, 2,207 residents: 114 arrests reported for 2024.
- Jellico, 2,122 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2022.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Rocky Top Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Campbell County, so its arrests are not broken out for Campbell County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Campbell County
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.
- Campbell County Sheriff's Office: 373 for 2025, 475 for 2024, 460 for 2023, 422 for 2022, 646 for 2021 and 399 for 2020.
- La Follette: 238 for 2024, 268 for 2023, 386 for 2022, 418 for 2021, 540 for 2020 and 729 for 2019.
- Caryville: 114 for 2024, 134 for 2023, 111 for 2022, 248 for 2021, 99 for 2020 and 148 for 2019.
- Jacksboro: 101 for 2024, 177 for 2021, 196 for 2020 and 218 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Jellico: 3 for 2022, 62 for 2020 and 86 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 928 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 827 in 2024 against 862 in 2023, down 4.1 percent.
Jellico reported only part of 2024 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Campbell County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Campbell County 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 270 people, down from about 320 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 322 beds, and it ran at 84 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 Campbell County Sheriff's Office at campbellcountytn.gov/elected-officials/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Campbell County), phone 423-562-7446, 610 Main Street PO Box 82 Jacksboro, TN 37757, 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 Campbell County
Whether someone was arrested in Campbell County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Campbell 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-8).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at campbellmunicipalcourt.com/recordSearch.php?k=searchForm5020 (page title: Campbell Municipal Court | Record Search), belongs to a lower court, not to the Campbell 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 Campbell County
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 Campbell County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 423-562-7446.
- An arrest in La Follette, Jacksboro, Caryville or Jellico: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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 Campbell 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 campbellmunicipalcourt.com, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Campbell County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Campbell County: La Follette, Jacksboro, Caryville and Jellico.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Campbell County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Campbell County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- La Follette (7,194)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Campbell County each year?
The Campbell County Sheriff's Office reported 373 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Campbell County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 928 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Campbell County?
Ask the Campbell County Sheriff's Office at 423-562-7446; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at campbellcountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Campbell County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Campbell County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Campbell County?
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 Campbell County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Campbell County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Tennessee Public Records Act the answer is due within 7 business days.
Is this the official Campbell County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.