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 October 9, 2026.
Coffee County, Tennessee, has about 61,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Coffee 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: Coffee County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Coffee County
The Coffee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Coffee County. It reported 1,690 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Tullahoma, 21,035 residents: 937 arrests reported for 2025.
- Manchester, 13,484 residents: 708 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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Coffee County: Drug Task Force's 14th Judicial District (other); Motlow State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Coffee 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.
- Coffee County Sheriff's Office: 1,690 for 2025, 1,920 for 2024, 1,728 for 2023, 1,605 for 2022, 1,526 for 2021 and 1,667 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Tullahoma: 937 for 2025, 1,236 for 2024, 1,058 for 2023, 806 for 2022, 932 for 2021 and 1,037 for 2020.
- Manchester: 708 for 2025, 730 for 2024, 758 for 2023, 718 for 2022, 732 for 2021 and 687 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,335 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,335 in 2025 against 3,886 in 2024, down 14 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,996 arrests, against 2,328 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Coffee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Coffee County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 370 people, up from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 400 beds, and it ran at 92 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office at coffeecountytn.gov/m/directory/department?did=30 (page title: Staff Directory, Sheriff's Office), phone 931-728-3591, 76 County Jail Lane Manchester, TN 37355, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Coffee County
An arrest in Coffee County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Coffee County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coffeecountytn.gov/327/Public-Court-Records); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-14).
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 Coffee 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 Coffee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 931-728-3591.
- An arrest in Tullahoma or Manchester: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 14th Judicial District or Motlow State Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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 Coffee County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at coffeecountytn.gov/327/Public-Court-Records.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Coffee County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Coffee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Coffee County: Tullahoma and Manchester.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Coffee County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Coffee County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Tullahoma (21,035)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Coffee County each year?
The Coffee County Sheriff's Office reported 1,690 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,335 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Coffee County?
Ask the Coffee County Sheriff's Office at 931-728-3591; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at coffeecountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Coffee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coffee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Coffee 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 Coffee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Coffee 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 Coffee 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.