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 9, 2026.
Haywood County, Tennessee, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Haywood County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Haywood 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: Haywood County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Haywood County
The Haywood County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Haywood County. It reported 762 arrests for 2025.
One city in Haywood County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Brownsville, 9,358 residents: 378 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 Haywood 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.
- Haywood County Sheriff's Office: 762 for 2025, 554 for 2024, 509 for 2023, 445 for 2022, 462 for 2021 and 548 for 2020.
- Brownsville: 378 for 2025, 261 for 2024, 324 for 2023, 220 for 2022, 248 for 2021 and 388 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,140 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,140 in 2025 against 815 in 2024, up 40 percent.
Through September 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 672 arrests, against 927 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Haywood County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Haywood 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 120 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 194 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 Haywood County Sheriff's Office at haywoodtn.gov/haywood-county-sheriff (page title: Haywood County Sheriff | Haywood County, Tennessee), phone 731-772-6158, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Haywood County
Whether someone was arrested in Haywood County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Haywood County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at haywoodtn.gov/government/court-systems/circuit-court, phone 731-772-1112); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-28).
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 Haywood 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 Haywood County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 731-772-6158.
- An arrest in Brownsville: 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.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Haywood County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at haywoodtn.gov, phone 731-772-1112.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Haywood County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Haywood County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Haywood County: Brownsville. Stanton has 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 Haywood County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Haywood County each year?
The Haywood County Sheriff's Office reported 762 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,140 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Haywood County?
Ask the Haywood County Sheriff's Office at 731-772-6158; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at haywoodtn.gov/haywood-county-sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Haywood County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Haywood County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Haywood 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 Haywood County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Haywood 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 Haywood 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.