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.
Sevier County, Tennessee, has about 100,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and one other 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 Sevier 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: Sevier County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sevier County
The Sevier County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sevier County. It reported 1,223 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Sevier County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Sevierville, 18,231 residents: 1,244 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pigeon Forge, 6,446 residents: 847 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gatlinburg, 3,703 residents: 602 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pittman Center, 464 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Sevier County: Drug Task Force's 4th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sevier 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.
- Sevierville: 1,244 for 2025, 1,461 for 2024, 1,675 for 2023, 2,331 for 2022, 1,973 for 2021 and 2,206 for 2020.
- Sevier County Sheriff's Office: 1,223 for 2025, 1,102 for 2024, 1,177 for 2023, 989 for 2022, 1,272 for 2021 and 1,202 for 2020.
- Pigeon Forge: 847 for 2025, 724 for 2024, 916 for 2023, 816 for 2022, 991 for 2021 and 960 for 2020.
- Gatlinburg: 602 for 2025, 605 for 2024, 624 for 2023, 644 for 2022, 705 for 2021 and 643 for 2020.
- Pittman Center: 0 for 2020 and 4 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,916 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,916 in 2025 against 3,892 in 2024, up 0.6 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,552 arrests, against 2,611 in the same months of 2025.
Pittman Center reported only part of 2025 (1 month) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sevier County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sevier 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 360 people, down from about 560 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 628 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office at isoms.seviercountytn.org:9000/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 Sevier County
Whether someone was arrested in Sevier County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Sevier County Circuit and Chancery Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at seviercountytn.gov/government/county_officials/circuit_court_clerk.php, phone 865.453.5536); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at seviercountytn.gov/government/justice_and_the_law/district_attorney..., phone (865) 429-7021).
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 Sevier 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 Sevier County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg or Pittman Center: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 4th Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney General, (865) 429-7021, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sevier County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at seviercountytn.gov, phone 865.453.5536.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sevier County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Sevier County: Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Pittman Center.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Sevier County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Sevier County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Sevierville (18,231)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sevier County each year?
Sevierville reported 1,244 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,916 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sevier County?
Ask the Sevier County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at isoms.seviercountytn.org:9000/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Sevier County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sevier County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sevier 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 Sevier County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sevier 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 Sevier 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.