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.
Cheatham County, Tennessee, has about 43,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Cheatham 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: Cheatham County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cheatham County
The Cheatham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cheatham County. It reported 886 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Ashland City, 5,689 residents: 361 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pleasant View, 5,629 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kingston Springs, 2,769 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2023.
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 Cheatham 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.
- Cheatham County Sheriff's Office: 886 for 2025, 952 for 2024, 1,134 for 2023, 822 for 2022, 1,309 for 2021 and 1,213 for 2020.
- Ashland City: 361 for 2025, 352 for 2024, 543 for 2023, 721 for 2022, 880 for 2021 and 852 for 2020.
- Pleasant View: 33 for 2025, 30 for 2024, 57 for 2023, 114 for 2022, 46 for 2021 and 59 for 2020.
- Kingston Springs: 33 for 2023, 66 for 2021, 38 for 2020 and 31 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,280 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,280 in 2025 against 1,334 in 2024, down 4 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 826 arrests, against 877 in the same months of 2025.
Kingston Springs reported only part of 2025 (4 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cheatham County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cheatham 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 89 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 116 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Cheatham County Sheriff's Office at cheathamcountytn.gov/faqs_sheriff.html (page title: Cheatham County, TN), phone (615) 792-2098, 200 Court Square Ashland City, TN 37015, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., 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 Cheatham County
Whether someone was arrested in Cheatham County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cheatham County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tn.gov/revenue/title-and-registration/county-clerks-locations.html, phone (865) 457-6226); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-23/ashland-city-office, phone 615 792-7500).
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 Cheatham 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 Cheatham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (615) 792-2098.
- An arrest in Ashland City, Pleasant View or Kingston Springs: 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, 615 792-7500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cheatham County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tn.gov, phone (865) 457-6226.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cheatham County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Cheatham County: Ashland City, Pleasant View and Kingston Springs. Pegram 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 Cheatham County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cheatham County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Ashland City (5,689)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cheatham County each year?
The Cheatham County Sheriff's Office reported 886 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,280 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cheatham County?
Ask the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office at (615) 792-2098; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cheathamcountytn.gov/faqs_sheriff.html.
Where are people arrested in Cheatham County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cheatham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cheatham 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 Cheatham County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cheatham 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 Cheatham 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.