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.
Tipton County, Tennessee, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tipton County Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. 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 Tipton 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: Tipton County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tipton County
The Tipton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tipton County. It reported 1,092 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Tipton County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Atoka, 10,624 residents: 233 arrests reported for 2025.
- Covington, 8,575 residents: 721 arrests reported for 2025.
- Munford, 6,896 residents: 249 arrests reported for 2025.
- Brighton, 2,904 residents: 86 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mason, 1,343 residents: 11 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tipton County
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.
- Tipton County Sheriff's Office: 1,092 for 2025, 1,166 for 2024, 813 for 2023, 709 for 2022, 747 for 2021 and 971 for 2020.
- Covington: 721 for 2025, 655 for 2024, 675 for 2023, 627 for 2022, 1,053 for 2020 and 1,131 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Munford: 249 for 2025, 292 for 2024, 392 for 2023, 257 for 2022, 187 for 2021 and 328 for 2020.
- Atoka: 233 for 2025, 211 for 2024, 177 for 2023, 139 for 2022, 63 for 2021 and 80 for 2020.
- Brighton: 86 for 2025, 100 for 2024, 67 for 2023, 57 for 2022, 67 for 2020 and 45 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Mason: 11 for 2020 and 9 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,381 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,381 in 2025 against 2,424 in 2024, down 1.8 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,463 arrests, against 1,623 in the same months of 2025.
Mason reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tipton County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Tipton 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 260 people, up from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 211 beds, and it ran at 123 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 Tipton County Sheriff's Office at tiptonco.com/government/sheriff/index.php (page title: Sheriff's Office), phone 901-475-3300, 1801 S College St, Ste 106 Covington, TN 38019, MON 8:00AM - 5:00PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Tipton County
An arrest in Tipton County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Tipton 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/9782396); the District Attorney General, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tennesseeda.gov/district-25).
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 Tipton 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 Tipton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 901-475-3300.
- An arrest in Atoka, Covington, Munford, Brighton or Mason: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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 Tipton County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782396.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Tipton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the eight cities in Tipton County: Atoka, Covington, Munford, Brighton and Mason. Gilt Edge, Burlison and Garland have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Tipton County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Tipton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tipton County each year?
The Tipton County Sheriff's Office reported 1,092 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,381 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Tipton County?
Ask the Tipton County Sheriff's Office at 901-475-3300; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at tiptonco.com/government/sheriff/index.php.
Where are people arrested in Tipton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tipton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tipton 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 Tipton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tipton 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 Tipton 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.