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.
Perry County, Tennessee, has about 9,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Perry 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 Perry 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: Perry County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Perry County
The Perry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Perry County. It reported 111 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Perry County Sheriff's Office Reports
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.
- Perry County Sheriff's Office: 111 for 2025, 71 for 2024, 100 for 2023, 85 for 2020 and 114 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
The Perry County Sheriff's Office's 111 arrests in 2025 were up 56 percent from 71 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Perry County Sheriff's Office reported 75 arrests, against 89 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Perry County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Perry 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 68 people, up from about 47 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 59 beds, and it ran at 114 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 Perry County Sheriff's Office at isoms.perrycountysheriff.net/portal/Jail (page title: Inmates | ISOMS Portal), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Perry County
Whether someone was arrested in Perry County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Perry County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.perrycountytn.com, phone 931-796-3450); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-32).
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 Perry 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 Perry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- 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 Perry County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at courts.perrycountytn.com, phone 931-796-3450.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Perry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Perry 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 Perry County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Perry County each year?
The Perry County Sheriff's Office reported 111 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Perry County?
Ask the Perry County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at isoms.perrycountysheriff.net/portal/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Perry County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Perry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Perry 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 Perry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Perry 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 Perry 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.