Which police department handled George Farmer’s 2023–2024 Davidson County DUI arrest and are arrest records public?

1. Which agency likely handled George Farmer’s 2023–2024 DUI arrest — arresting agency vs. booking custodian

If George Farmer was arrested in Davidson County, Tennessee, the arrest itself would have been made by whatever local police agency responded (for example Metro Nashville Police Department or a municipal department), but the physical booking and detention would have been done at the Davidson County jail run by the Sheriff’s Office. Reporting explains that although the arresting law-enforcement agency creates the original police/arrest record, all county arrests get booked at the county detention center operated by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office ^{[1] [3]}. Available sources do not mention George Farmer by name; they therefore do not identify which agency actually made his DUI arrest.

2. Where the official record lives and who to contact

The original arrest report remains with the arresting police agency, while the booking entry and inmate custody information are maintained and publicly searchable through the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office systems. The Sheriff’s Office provides an “Active Inmate Search” and recent-bookings listings; Metro Nashville also posts a Daily Booking List for bookings in Davidson County ^{[3] [4] [1]}. To obtain the arrest report itself, sources advise contacting the arresting department’s records unit — for Metro Nashville that is the Central Records Division at a listed Madison address — or submitting a records request to the Sheriff’s Office records center ^{[5] [6]}.

3. Are arrest records public in Davidson County?

Yes. Davidson County makes arrest and court records available under Tennessee open-records frameworks and through local custodians. Multiple guides and county-focused public-record sites state that arrest records, booking information and court dockets are public and obtainable by request from the appropriate custodial agency (Metro Nashville Police Department, Davidson County Sheriff, or the criminal court clerk) ^{[7] [5] [2]}. These sources caution that some details (like case dispositions or sealed juvenile records) may not be included in arrest listings and that official disposition data may require court or clerk searches ^{[5] [1]}.

4. Practical steps to find a 2023–24 DUI arrest record

Start with the Davidson County Sheriff’s active inmate/recent bookings search and the Metro Nashville Daily Booking List for the relevant dates; both publish recent bookings and inmate rosters ^{[3] [4]}. If the booking appears, the Sheriff’s pages will list the booking agency as submitted; for full incident reports, contact the records unit of the arresting police department (Metro Nashville Central Records or the municipal department that covers the arrest location) or file a public-records request per the Sheriff or Metro guidance ^{[6] [5] [1]}. Public-record portals and third‑party aggregators also summarize these channels but are not substitutes for custodian records ^{[8] [9]}.

5. What public records will — and will not — show

Public booking lists and the Sheriff’s inmate search will show the arrestee’s name, booking date, charges as entered at booking, and booking agency; Metro’s public case search returns defendant names and addresses as submitted by the arresting/booking agency ^{[2] [3]}. Sources explicitly note that arrest records do not necessarily include case disposition (whether a person was convicted, acquitted or charges dropped) and that official court records or clerk searches are needed to confirm outcomes ^{[5] [1]}.

6. Conflicting perspectives and limitations in the record

Guides and county sites agree on the split custody model (arresting agency holds the original report; Sheriff’s Office handles booking and public inmate listings) but differ in emphasis: some consumer-facing sites suggest searching multiple municipal departments first, while official Sheriff/Metro pages direct requesters to centralized booking and records offices ^{[8] [1]}. Importantly, none of the provided sources name George Farmer or his arrest; therefore any definitive statement identifying the arresting agency for his 2023–24 DUI cannot be made from these sources alone — the record must be retrieved from the custodians named above ^{[1] [2]}.

If you want, I can draft the specific public‑records request language to send to Metro Nashville Central Records and the Davidson County Sheriff’s records center, and list the documents and identifiers to include for a faster search. Available sources do not mention George Farmer’s case details or outcome (not found in current reporting).