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.
Pickett County, Tennessee, has about 5,100 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Pickett 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 Pickett 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: Pickett County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Pickett County
The Pickett County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Pickett County. It reported 99 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Pickett 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.
- Pickett County Sheriff's Office: 99 for 2025, 76 for 2021 and 186 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pickett County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pickett 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 2018 the jail held about 5 people. Its rated capacity in 2018 was 6 beds, and it ran at 83 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Pickett County
Whether someone was arrested in Pickett County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Pickett 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/9782381); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-13, phone 931-528-8598).
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 Pickett 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 Pickett County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, 931-528-8598, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Pickett County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782381.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Pickett County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Pickett 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 Pickett County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pickett County each year?
The Pickett County Sheriff's Office reported 99 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Pickett County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pickett County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pickett 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 Pickett County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pickett 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 Pickett 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.