This is a private reference site, not a DeKalb County or Tennessee government office. We cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking or court record. Contact the agency that holds the record.
Official DeKalb Records Contacts
Choose the office by record type. The Sheriff's Department handles DeKalb County Jail bookings and release entries. The Circuit Court Clerk holds county criminal and General Sessions case records. TDOC offices handle state offender archives and post-release supervision. Published hours are included only where the research identified them.
DeKalb County Sheriff's Department
100 Public Square
Smithville, TN 37166
Phone: 615-597-4935 or 615-597-4043
Fax: 615-597-2536
Hours: Not published; call before visiting.
Use this office for county booking status, the release entry or release sheet, a booking photograph, and routing to the local public-record coordinator.
DeKalb Circuit Court Clerk
1 Public Square, Room 201
Smithville, TN 37166
Phone: 615-597-5711
Fax: 615-597-9919
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Use this office for Circuit, Criminal, General Sessions, and qualifying county case records, including disposition, judgment, sentence, bond, dismissal, and probation documents. Juvenile records are excluded from the clerk's general public-access statement.
TDOC Records Management
Rachel Jackson Building, 2nd Floor
320 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243-0465
Questions: 615-253-8079
Hours: Not stated on the archived-record request page.
Use the TDOC archived-record request route for a former state offender's release or discharge record, sentence information, or releasable photograph. TDOC quotes archive-search charges after the work is complete, so do not send advance payment.
TDOC District 31, Cookeville
851 South Willow Avenue, Suite 202
Cookeville, TN 38501
Phone: 931-526-7165
Fax: 931-528-3267
Hours: Not published in the field-office directory.
This office serves DeKalb County parole and probation field supervision. Search FOIL first. Call District 31 for valid reporting questions or agency routing, not as a public name-search counter.
TN SAVIN and VINE
Hotline: 1-888-868-4631
TTY: 1-866-847-1298
Coordinator: 615-840-1592
Service availability: 24 hours a day
Use TN SAVIN for county custody notices and TDOC VINE for state custody notices. A release or transfer alert applies to the agency that sent it and may need a receiving-custodian check.
The following routes can narrow the request before an office is called:
- For a named county release or a release record, begin with the DeKalb County released inmates search and its sheriff request steps.
- For community supervision, use Post-Release Supervision and the District 31 route.
- For a recent county window, use the 24-Hour Releases page, which explains the weekly-report fallback.
- For a possible future date or notice, use Release Date Lookup and the VINE Inmate Check.
- For the local facility, use the DeKalb County Jail page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced Tennessee felony offender, use TDOC FOIL or the archived-record request route.
- For federal prison or immigration custody, use the official BOP or ICE locator rather than a DeKalb jail search.