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 on September 23, 2026.
Moore County, Tennessee, has about 6,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Moore County Sheriff's Office. 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 Moore 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: Moore County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Moore County
The Moore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Moore County. It reported 204 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Moore County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Moore County Sheriff's Office: 204 for 2025, 199 for 2024, 181 for 2023, 182 for 2022, 203 for 2021 and 158 for 2020.
The Moore County Sheriff's Office's 204 arrests in 2025 were up 2.5 percent from 199 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Moore County Sheriff's Office reported 171 arrests, against 170 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Moore County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Moore 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 23 people, down from about 31 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 29 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office at metromoorecounty.org/about_us/sheriff_s_office/index.php (page title: Moore County, TN), 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 Moore County
An arrest in Moore County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Moore 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/9782376); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-17, phone (931)962-1144).
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 Moore 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 Moore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, (931)962-1144, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Moore County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782376.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Moore County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Moore County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Moore County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Moore County each year?
The Moore County Sheriff's Office reported 204 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moore County?
Ask the Moore County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at metromoorecounty.org.
Where are people arrested in Moore County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Moore County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Moore 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 Moore County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Moore 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 Moore 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.