Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Obion County, Tennessee, has about 30,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Tennessee the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master; the statewide criminal history kept by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Obion County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Obion County public records, Obion County arrest records, Obion County warrants, Obion County inmate search, Obion County court records, Tennessee arrest records and Tennessee inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Obion County Circuit and Chancery Courts
A criminal case from Obion County is filed in the Obion County Circuit and Chancery Courts or the General Sessions Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Court Clerk and the Clerk and Master, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Obion County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at obioncountytn.gov/courts.html (page title: Obion County, TN), phone (731) 507-0999, 7922 Fax Chancery Court Emily Hall, Clerk and Master 6 Bill Burnett Circle PO BOX 187 Union City, TN 38281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Tennessee has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Tennessee Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Obion County
The Obion County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Union City, South Fulton, Troy, Obion and Hornbeak keep the arrest records in Obion County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Obion County: Drug Task Force's 27th Judicial District (other agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Trimble Police Department and the Kenton Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Obion County, so their arrests are not broken out for Obion County here.
Together, the three agencies in Obion County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,440 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Obion County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Obion County in 2025
The three agencies in Obion County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 79 violent and 314 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 393 crimes in 2025 against 541 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Obion County public records guide.
The District Attorney General for Obion County
Charges in Obion County are filed by the District Attorney General, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Obion County Circuit and Chancery Courts or the General Sessions Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at tennesseeda.gov/district-27 (page title: 27th Judicial District | District Attorney Colin Johnson), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Obion County
Registered sex offenders living in Obion County are listed on the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry, run by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at sor.tbi.tn.gov/home. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Obion County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Tennessee Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 7 business days, and it may charge copying, and labor after the first hour.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Obion County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Obion County and Tennessee. These criminal records pages from its Obion County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- crawford, michael anthony (sor.tbi.tn.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Obion 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.
Can I search Obion County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at obioncountytn.gov/courts.html (page title: Obion County, TN).
How do I get my own Tennessee criminal history?
Through the same TORIS search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Obion County?
The District Attorney General, which files its cases in the Obion County Circuit and Chancery Courts or the General Sessions Court.
Is this the official Obion 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.