Carroll County Arrest Records

Carroll County arrest records are documents produced due to the arrest of a person by the county's law enforcement authorities. The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is primarily responsible for arrests and arrest records in the county. When law enforcement officers apprehend persons in Carroll County, Tennessee, they detain them at the Carroll County Jail. Law enforcement in the county arrests an individual when there is probable cause to believe the individual is involved in criminal activity. When arrests lead to prosecution in court, the arrest records will be part of the Carroll County Court Records, detailing the period from the arrest to the release terms and conditions if the person is convicted.

Are Arrest Records Public in Carroll County?

Tennessee's Open Records Act, Tenn. Code Ann. § 10-7-503, ensures that arrest records, including police reports, inmate details, and booking logs, are public records in Tennessee. However, authorities maintain records and may withhold some records from the public. T.C.A. § 10-7-504 makes provisions for records that may be exempted, including. Generally, arrest records involving:

• Juvenile records of minors to protect privacy,
• Sealed court records, such as information protecting police informants
• Records whose disclosure may affect ongoing investigations or endanger lives
• Active investigations

Members of the public seeking to access Carroll County arrest records may do so at the County Sheriff's Office at:

Carroll County Sheriff's Office
126 West Paris Street
Huntingdon, TN 38344

Carroll County Arrest Statistics

Arrest statistics on the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, as provided by the Carroll County Sheriff's office, show 892 arrests in the county in 2023. Arrestee data by sex was 643 females to 249 males. The age bracket with the highest number of arrested persons was 35-3,9, with 119 arrests. There were 54 violent crimes and 24 property crimes in this same period. There were 15 aggravated assaults and 38 simple assaults under violent crimes, while there were three motor vehicle thefts and five larcenies under property crimes.

Find Carroll County Arrest Records

Searchers for a detained person in Carroll County typically start by checking the Carroll County Jail, the central location to locate inmates. They may get more information through the Carroll County Sheriff's Office or the Carroll County Jail at:

Norandal Drive
Huntingdon, TN 38344
Phone: (731) 986-1906

There are no federal correctional institutions in the county. Still, interested persons may use the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Inmate Locator to locate a person detained in a federal correctional institution in the county.

Carroll County Arrest Records Vs. Criminal Records

Carroll County Arrest records document when law enforcement detained an individual on suspicion of involvement in a criminal activity. Arrest records include:

• The alleged offense committed
• The arresting law enforcement agency
• The time and date of the offense
• The booking details

It is essential to understand that arrest records do not confirm guilt in the individual arrested, and district attorneys do not always file charges after an arrest.

Criminal records include a complete run-through of a person's interaction with the state or federal criminal justice system. A person's criminal records will include:

• The formally filed charges
• Sentences and convictions
• Court proceedings and the outcomes
• Prohibition and parole information

Understanding the distinction between arrest records and criminal records in Carroll County may help individuals make personally and legally informed decisions.

How Long Do Arrests Stay on Your Record?

In Carroll County, as in Tennessee, arrests remain on an individual's record indefinitely unless they are expunged (removed) by a legal process. Thus, even an arrest without conviction will stay on a person's record, and background checks conducted by potential employers, landlords, and licensing agencies may reveal this. Tennessee law does not automatically remove these arrest records after a set period or several years. Instead, interested persons must petition for the expungement of the records if they meet the eligibility criteria. Note that expungement in Tennessee involves the destruction of the public record, but the court will still retain a confidential copy available only to law enforcement.

Eligibility criteria for expungement include:

• Where a court dismisses the charges, or the court acquits the individual of the charges
• Where there was an arrest but no charges
• Where the party completed a pretrial or judicial diversion program
• The conviction was for certain non-violent misdemeanors or Class E felonies, and it has been at least five years since the completion of the sentence.

Carroll County Arrest Warrants

In Carroll County, an arrest warrant is a legal document issued through a court process by a magistrate or judge empowering law enforcement personnel to detain a person for a crime. The person may be a suspect of having committed the crime, an accessory, or have aided in the crime, or may have information about the crime or its perpetrators.

For more details, people desiring to have information on an active warrant in Carroll County may contact the Carroll County Sheriff's Office. However, note that approaching law enforcement while you have an active warrant may lead to immediate arrest.

Do Carroll County Arrest Warrants Expire?

Carroll County arrest warrants do not have a specific expiration date when issued for felonies. They remain active indefinitely until they are served or recalled by the court, regardless of the type of offense that led to the warrant issuance. However, attorneys may challenge these warrants in court, and they may be invalidated if it is found that:

• Probable cause was not sufficient.
• There were clerical errors in the warrant.

Tennessee Code § 40-6-206 provides a five-year time limit for arrest warrants issued for misdemeanor-related offenses. After this time, the warrant becomes void if law enforcement may not serve it successfully, and they must remove it from the records.

Expunge Carroll County Arrest Records

In Carroll County, there is a provision for expunging misdemeanors and Class E felonies after a five-year waiting period following the completion of the most recent sentence. A 10-year waiting period applies to drug-related felonies. Before expungement, all the terms of the sentence, such as fees, fines, and restitution, must have been satisfied. Tenn. Code § 40-35-302, as amended by HB 266, requires the judge, during the sentencing of an individual for misdemeanor-related offenses, to notify them of their eligibility to apply for expunging the records and the time requirements for the application.

Where the state grants a pardon, it serves as grounds for expungement of records. Persons applying for expungement of records must pay a filing fee of $100, which they may pay in installments.

Expungement of records in Tennessee entitles the petitioner to have all expunged conviction records destroyed, and the sentence is perceived as if it never happened. Persons with expunged convictions do not have to acknowledge the arrest or indictment and are not guilty of perjury for not doing so.

Note: Authorities may exclude certain records from the public records that have been expunged in Tennessee. These include investigation reports, arrest records, district attorney files, and intelligence information from law enforcement agencies.