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.
Sequatchie County, Tennessee, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Sequatchie 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: Sequatchie County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sequatchie County
The Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sequatchie County. It reported 223 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Sequatchie County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Dunlap, 5,960 residents: 272 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sequatchie County
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.
- Dunlap: 272 for 2025, 269 for 2024, 414 for 2023, 398 for 2022, 421 for 2021 and 449 for 2020.
- Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office: 223 for 2025, 249 for 2024, 271 for 2023, 258 for 2021, 321 for 2020 and 285 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 495 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 495 in 2025 against 518 in 2024, down 4.4 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sequatchie County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sequatchie 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 110 people, up from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 96 beds, and it ran at 112 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 Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office at sequatchiesheriff.com (page title: Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office is under construction), 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 Sequatchie County
An arrest in Sequatchie County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Sequatchie 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/9782389); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-12).
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 Sequatchie County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Dunlap: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- 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 Sequatchie County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782389.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at seqassessor.com/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request | Assessor of Property).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sequatchie County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Dunlap, the one city in Sequatchie County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Sequatchie County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sequatchie County each year?
Dunlap reported 272 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 495 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sequatchie County?
Ask the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sequatchiesheriff.com.
Where are people arrested in Sequatchie County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sequatchie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sequatchie 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 Sequatchie County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sequatchie 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at seqassessor.com/public-records-request.
Is this the official Sequatchie 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.