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 2, 2026.
Grainger County, Tennessee, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Grainger 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 Grainger 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: Grainger County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Grainger County
The Grainger County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Grainger County. It reported 494 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Grainger County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Bean Station, 3,111 residents: 123 arrests reported for 2025.
- Blaine, 2,167 residents: 21 arrests reported for 2024.
- Rutledge, 1,348 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2021.
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 Grainger 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.
- Grainger County Sheriff's Office: 494 for 2025, 509 for 2024, 602 for 2023, 458 for 2022, 651 for 2021 and 721 for 2020.
- Bean Station: 123 for 2025, 52 for 2023, 78 for 2021, 98 for 2020 and 71 for 2019; 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Blaine: 21 for 2024, 23 for 2023, 54 for 2022, 50 for 2021, 27 for 2020 and 27 for 2019.
- Rutledge: 26 for 2021, 23 for 2020 and 17 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 677 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 625 in 2023 against 512 in 2022, up 22 percent.
Rutledge reported only part of 2023 (5 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Grainger County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Grainger 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 93 people, up from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 100 beds, and it ran at 93 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 Grainger County Sheriff's Office at graingercountytn.gov (page title: Grainger County Sheriff Department), phone 865-828-3613, 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 Grainger County
For Grainger County the place to look is the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-4).
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 Grainger 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 Grainger County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 865-828-3613.
- An arrest in Bean Station, Blaine or Rutledge: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Grainger County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Grainger County: Bean Station, Blaine and Rutledge.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Grainger County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Grainger County each year?
The Grainger County Sheriff's Office reported 494 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Grainger County sent in full, the three with every month on file reported 677 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Grainger County?
Ask the Grainger County Sheriff's Office at 865-828-3613; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at graingercountytn.gov.
Where are people arrested in Grainger County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grainger County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Grainger 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 Grainger County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Grainger 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 Grainger 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.