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 4, 2026.
Humphreys County, Tennessee, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Humphreys 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 Humphreys 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: Humphreys County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Humphreys County
The Humphreys County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Humphreys County. It reported 378 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Waverly, 4,381 residents: 287 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Johnsonville, 1,840 residents: 135 arrests reported for 2021.
- McEwen, 1,762 residents: 79 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 Humphreys 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.
- Humphreys County Sheriff's Office: 378 for 2025, 309 for 2024, 413 for 2023, 424 for 2022, 218 for 2021 and 138 for 2020.
- Waverly: 287 for 2025, 265 for 2024, 231 for 2023, 251 for 2022, 178 for 2021 and 301 for 2020.
- McEwen: 79 for 2025, 77 for 2024, 105 for 2023, 74 for 2022, 110 for 2020 and 149 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- New Johnsonville: 135 for 2021 and 207 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 744 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 744 in 2025 against 651 in 2024, up 14 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 373 arrests, against 435 in the same months of 2025.
New Johnsonville reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Humphreys County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Humphreys 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 100 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 68 beds, and it ran at 148 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Humphreys County Sheriff's Office at humphreyscosheriff.com (page title: Humphreys County Jail Roster Lookup, TN, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Humphreys County
Whether someone was arrested in Humphreys County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Humphreys County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Humphreys 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/9782352); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-23/waverly-office, phone 931-296-9159).
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 Humphreys 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 Humphreys County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Waverly, New Johnsonville or McEwen: 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, 931-296-9159, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Humphreys County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782352.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Humphreys County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the three cities in Humphreys County: Waverly, New Johnsonville and McEwen.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Humphreys County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Humphreys County each year?
The Humphreys County Sheriff's Office reported 378 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 744 between them.
Where are people arrested in Humphreys County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Humphreys County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Humphreys 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 Humphreys County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Humphreys 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 Humphreys 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.