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.
Dickson County, Tennessee, has about 58,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dickson County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and two 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 Dickson 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: Dickson County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dickson County
The Dickson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dickson County. It reported 1,323 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Dickson County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Dickson, 16,878 residents: 950 arrests reported for 2025.
- White Bluff, 4,386 residents: 159 arrests reported for 2025.
- Burns, 1,872 residents: 4 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 Dickson County: Dickson City Park Ranger Division and Drug Task Force's 23rd Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dickson 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.
- Dickson County Sheriff's Office: 1,323 for 2025, 1,201 for 2024, 1,365 for 2023, 1,460 for 2022, 1,644 for 2021 and 1,474 for 2020.
- Dickson: 950 for 2025, 1,093 for 2024, 1,190 for 2023, 838 for 2022, 869 for 2021 and 935 for 2020.
- White Bluff: 159 for 2025, 115 for 2024, 97 for 2023, 112 for 2022, 113 for 2020 and 169 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Burns: 4 for 2025, 3 for 2020 and 1 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,436 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,432 in 2025 against 2,409 in 2024, up 1 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,762 arrests, against 1,803 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dickson County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dickson 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 240 people, down from about 370 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 399 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Dickson County Sheriff's Office at dicksoncountysheriff.org/jail (page title: Jail | Dickson County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Tennessee Department of Correction lists its inmates at foil.app.tn.gov/foil/search.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Dickson County
An arrest in Dickson County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Dickson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dicksoncountytn.gov/circuit_court.html, phone (615) 789-7010); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-23/charlotte-office, phone 615-789-5021).
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 Dickson 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 Dickson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Dickson, White Bluff or Burns: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Dickson City Park Ranger Division or Drug Task Force's 23rd Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 615-789-5021, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dickson County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at dicksoncountytn.gov/circuit_court.html, phone (615) 789-7010.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Dickson County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Dickson County: Dickson, White Bluff and Burns. Charlotte, Vanleer and Slayden have 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 Dickson County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dickson County each year?
The Dickson County Sheriff's Office reported 1,323 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,436 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dickson County?
Ask the Dickson County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at dicksoncountysheriff.org/jail.
Where are people arrested in Dickson County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dickson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dickson 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 Dickson County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dickson 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 Dickson 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.