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 September 25, 2026.
Giles County, Tennessee, has about 31,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Giles County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Giles 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: Giles County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Giles County
The Giles County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Giles County. It reported 917 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Pulaski, 8,241 residents: 370 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ardmore, 1,236 residents: 36 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elkton, 530 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2020.
- Minor Hill, 520 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Lynnville, 321 residents: 1,188 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 Giles 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.
- Lynnville: 1,188 for 2025, 1,188 for 2024, 1,188 for 2023, 1,188 for 2022, 1,188 for 2021 and 1,200 for 2020.
- Giles County Sheriff's Office: 917 for 2025, 950 for 2024, 799 for 2023, 787 for 2021, 865 for 2020 and 1,049 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Pulaski: 370 for 2025, 340 for 2024, 328 for 2023, 341 for 2022, 338 for 2021 and 457 for 2020.
- Ardmore: 36 for 2025, 35 for 2024, 38 for 2023, 63 for 2022, 10 for 2020 and 16 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Elkton: 8 for 2020 and 10 for 2019.
- Minor Hill: 0 for 2020 and 10 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,511 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,511 in 2025 against 2,513 in 2024, down 0.1 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,165 arrests, against 1,178 in the same months of 2025.
Minor Hill and Elkton reported only part of 2025 (6 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Giles County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Giles 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 120 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 126 beds, and it ran at 94 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 Giles County Sheriff's Office at gilessd.com (page title: Welcome to the Giles County Sheriff's Department), phone 800-682-0707, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 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 Giles County
For Giles County the place to look is the case index of the Giles County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at gilescountytn.gov/courts-2/circuit-court, phone 931-363-5311).
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 Giles 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 Giles County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 800-682-0707.
- An arrest in Pulaski, Ardmore, Elkton, Minor Hill or Lynnville: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Giles County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at gilescountytn.gov/courts-2/circuit-court, phone 931-363-5311.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Giles County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Giles County: Pulaski, Ardmore, Elkton, Minor Hill and Lynnville.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Giles County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Giles County each year?
Lynnville reported 1,188 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,511 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Giles County?
Ask the Giles County Sheriff's Office at 800-682-0707; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gilessd.com.
Where are people arrested in Giles County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Giles County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Giles 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 Giles County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Giles 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 Giles 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.