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.
Fayette County, Tennessee, has about 44,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one other 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 Fayette 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: Fayette County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Fayette County
The Fayette County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Fayette County. It reported 566 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Fayette County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Oakland, 10,769 residents: 127 arrests reported for 2025.
- Somerville, 3,523 residents: 152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Piperton, 2,766 residents: 16 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rossville, 1,183 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2023.
- Moscow, 555 residents: 19 arrests reported for 2020.
- Gallaway, 521 residents: 4 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 Grand Junction Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Fayette County, so its arrests are not broken out for Fayette County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Fayette County: Drug Task Force's 25th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Fayette 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.
- Fayette County Sheriff's Office: 566 for 2025, 569 for 2024, 439 for 2023 and 389 for 2022.
- Somerville: 152 for 2025, 119 for 2024, 107 for 2023, 110 for 2022, 91 for 2021 and 114 for 2020.
- Oakland: 127 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 20 for 2023, 21 for 2022, 26 for 2021 and 8 for 2020.
- Piperton: 16 for 2025, 5 for 2023, 4 for 2020 and 20 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Moscow: 19 for 2020 and 34 for 2019.
- Rossville: 7 for 2023, 3 for 2020 and 3 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Gallaway: 4 for 2022, 5 for 2020 and 2 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 861 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 845 in 2025 against 783 in 2024, up 7.9 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 576 arrests, against 576 in the same months of 2025.
Gallaway and Rossville reported only part of 2025 (6 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fayette County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fayette 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 75 people, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 189 beds, and it ran at 40 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Fayette County
An arrest in Fayette County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Fayette County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tncourts.gov/node/9782331); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-25).
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 Fayette 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 Fayette County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Oakland, Somerville, Piperton, Rossville, Moscow or Gallaway: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 25th 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fayette County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782331.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Fayette County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the nine cities in Fayette County: Oakland, Somerville, Piperton, Rossville, Moscow and Gallaway. Williston, Braden and La Grange 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 Fayette County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fayette County each year?
The Fayette County Sheriff's Office reported 566 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 861 between them.
Where are people arrested in Fayette County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fayette County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fayette 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 Fayette County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fayette 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 Fayette 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.