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 on September 23, 2026.
Cannon County, Tennessee, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cannon County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 Cannon 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: Cannon County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cannon County
The Cannon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cannon County. It reported 90 arrests for 2025.
One city in Cannon County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Woodbury, 2,831 residents: 99 arrests reported for 2025.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cannon County
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.
- Woodbury: 99 for 2025, 101 for 2024, 139 for 2023, 93 for 2022, 115 for 2020 and 133 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Cannon County Sheriff's Office: 90 for 2025, 114 for 2024, 130 for 2023, 114 for 2022, 114 for 2020 and 107 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 189 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 189 in 2025 against 215 in 2024, down 12 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 116 arrests, against 118 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cannon County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cannon 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 58 people, down from about 62 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 46 beds, and it ran at 126 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 Cannon County Sheriff's Office at cannoncountytn.gov/sheriffs-office (page title: Cannon County Sheriff’s Office | Cannon County, Tennessee), phone (615) 563-2320, 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 Cannon County
Whether someone was arrested in Cannon County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cannon County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cannoncountytn.gov/county-clerk-2, phone (615) 563-2320); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-16).
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 Cannon County
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 Cannon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (615) 563-2320.
- An arrest in Woodbury: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- 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 Cannon County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at cannoncountytn.gov/county-clerk-2, phone (615) 563-2320.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cannon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Cannon County: Woodbury. Auburntown has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cannon County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cannon County each year?
Woodbury reported 99 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 189 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cannon County?
Ask the Cannon County Sheriff's Office at (615) 563-2320; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cannoncountytn.gov/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Cannon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cannon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cannon 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 Cannon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cannon 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 Cannon 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.