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 30, 2026.
Maury County, Tennessee, has about 113,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Maury County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and one campus 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 Maury 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: Maury County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Maury County
The Maury County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Maury County. It reported 2,664 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Columbia, 48,812 residents: 2,103 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Pleasant, 4,871 residents: 212 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.
The Spring Hill Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Maury County, so its arrests are not broken out for Maury County here.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Maury County: Columbia State Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Maury 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.
- Maury County Sheriff's Office: 2,664 for 2025, 2,853 for 2024, 3,027 for 2023, 2,840 for 2022, 2,433 for 2021 and 2,394 for 2020.
- Columbia: 2,103 for 2025, 1,925 for 2024, 1,958 for 2023, 1,525 for 2022, 1,544 for 2021 and 2,032 for 2020.
- Mount Pleasant: 212 for 2025, 108 for 2024, 126 for 2022, 236 for 2021, 136 for 2020 and 135 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,979 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,979 in 2025 against 4,886 in 2024, up 1.9 percent.
Through September 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,631 arrests, against 3,840 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Maury County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Maury 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 280 people, down from about 330 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 386 beds, and it ran at 72 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 Maury County Sheriff's Office at maurycounty-tn.gov/164/Corrections (page title: Corrections | Maury County, TN), phone 931-380-5733, 1300 Lawson White Drive Columbia, TN 38401, 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 Maury County
Whether someone was arrested in Maury County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Maury 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/clerks/all/all?tid=112); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-22).
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 Maury 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 Maury County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 931-380-5733.
- An arrest in Columbia or Mount Pleasant: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Columbia State Community College: 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 Maury County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/clerks/all/all?tid=112.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Maury County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the two cities in Maury County: Columbia and Mount Pleasant.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Maury County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Maury County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Columbia (48,812)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Maury County each year?
The Maury County Sheriff's Office reported 2,664 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,979 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Maury County?
Ask the Maury County Sheriff's Office at 931-380-5733; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at maurycounty-tn.gov/164/Corrections.
Where are people arrested in Maury County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Maury County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Maury 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 Maury County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Maury 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 Maury 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.