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 28, 2026.
Greene County, Tennessee, has about 73,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greene County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Greene 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: Greene County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greene County
The Greene County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greene County. It reported 1,415 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Greeneville, 15,979 residents: 814 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tusculum, 3,394 residents: 36 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mosheim, 2,560 residents: 115 arrests reported for 2025.
- Baileyton, 450 residents: 60 arrests reported for 2023.
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 one more agency in Greene County: Drug Task Force's 3rd Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Greene 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.
- Greene County Sheriff's Office: 1,415 for 2025, 1,433 for 2024, 1,462 for 2023, 1,597 for 2022, 1,754 for 2021 and 1,595 for 2020.
- Greeneville: 814 for 2025, 905 for 2024, 997 for 2023, 893 for 2022, 763 for 2021 and 803 for 2020.
- Mosheim: 115 for 2025, 201 for 2024, 235 for 2023 and 98 for 2022.
- Tusculum: 36 for 2025, 67 for 2024, 11 for 2020 and 12 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Baileyton: 60 for 2023, 23 for 2022, 36 for 2021, 29 for 2020 and 55 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,380 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,380 in 2025 against 2,606 in 2024, down 8.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,302 arrests, against 1,529 in the same months of 2025.
Baileyton reported only part of 2025 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greene County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Greene 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 320 people, down from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 439 beds, and it ran at 74 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office at greenecountytngov.com/sheriffs-office (page title: SHERIFF’S OFFICE | Greene County), phone 423-798-1800, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Greene County
Whether someone was arrested in Greene County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Greene 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/9782338); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-3).
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 Greene 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 423-798-1800.
- An arrest in Greeneville, Tusculum, Mosheim or Baileyton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 3rd 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 Greene County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782338.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Greene County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Greene County: Greeneville, Tusculum, Mosheim and Baileyton.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Greene County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greene County each year?
The Greene County Sheriff's Office reported 1,415 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,380 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Greene County?
Ask the Greene County Sheriff's Office at 423-798-1800; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at greenecountytngov.com/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Greene County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greene County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Greene 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 Greene County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greene 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 Greene 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.