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 30, 2026.
Trousdale County, Tennessee, has about 12,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office 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 Trousdale 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: Trousdale County public records, Tennessee arrest records, Tennessee inmate search and Tennessee criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Trousdale County
The Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Trousdale County. It reported 645 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Trousdale County: Drug Task Force's 15th Judicial District (other).
How Many Arrests The Hartsville/Trousdale 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.
- Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office: 645 for 2025, 513 for 2024, 597 for 2023, 576 for 2022, 555 for 2021 and 609 for 2020.
The Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office's 645 arrests in 2025 were up 26 percent from 513 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office reported 319 arrests, against 452 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Trousdale County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Trousdale County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 36 people, down from about 49 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2024 was 44 beds, and it ran at 81 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 Trousdale County
For Trousdale County the place to look is the case index of the Trousdale 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/9782397).
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 Trousdale 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 Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest by Drug Task Force's 15th Judicial District: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Trousdale County Circuit and Chancery Courts, through the court records page at tncourts.gov/node/9782397.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Trousdale County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Trousdale 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 Trousdale County Circuit and Chancery Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Trousdale County each year?
The Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office reported 645 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Trousdale County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hartsville/Trousdale County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Trousdale 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 Trousdale County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hartsville/Trousdale 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 Trousdale 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.