Sevier County Sheriff's Office

What Sevier County Sheriff's Office does

Sevier County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is the statutory county law enforcement agency serving Sevier County, Tennessee, headquartered at 106 W Bruce St, Sevierville, in the Montgomery-Seals Administrative Building. The agency is led by Sheriff Michael R. Hodges, Jr. and operates as a county government entity with no commercial revenue model; it is funded by public tax appropriations and delivers services directly to county residents, school districts, and inmates held at Sevier County Jail (137 Commerce Street) and its annex (896 Old Knoxville Highway). A CID, Training, and OCR complex operates from 126 West Bruce Street.

SCSO consolidates more than 26 functional divisions under one operational roof, spanning Patrol, Criminal Investigations, Traffic, K-9, Dive Team, EOD Unit, UAV (drone), Special Operations (SORT), NOVAU (narcotics and organized violent crime), Video Forensics, GIS, Court Services, Records & Warrants, Animal Control, Communications/Dispatch, Corrections, the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT), Chaplains, Reserves, Training, Litter, and the Office of Community Relations. Community-facing units include the School Resource Officer Division (covering 16 schools across Seymour, Pigeon Forge, and other districts), the Special Victims Unit, the Senior Outreach Program, the Sheriff's Citizen Academy, the STOP Program, the Neighborhood Crime Prevention Unit, and the Sheriff's Kid Camp. Public-facing tools include an online Sex Offender Registry tracking 182 offenders and an online Inmate Roster portal.

The technology and vendor stack is largely composed of best-of-breed third-party integrations rather than proprietary systems: OCV, LLC powers the agency's mobile application and website platform; TBE Jail processes online and phone inmate deposits; City Tele Coin provides inmate video visitation and phone services; CodeRed handles mass emergency alerting; and Vinelink provides victim-status notifications. The website notes a 2026 copyright, and the agency's app is distributed via the OCV share link. No proprietary technology stack, AI/ML capability, or venture-funded subsidiary is disclosed; SCSO is a tax-funded public-safety agency whose competitive position rests on its statutory mandate and operational breadth, not on commercial product innovation.

Name

Sevier County Sheriff's Office

Legal name

Sevier County Sheriff's Office

Website

https://seviercountysheriff.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Sevier County Sheriff's Office is a county government law enforcement agency in Sevierville, Tennessee, providing patrol, criminal investigations, corrections, school resource officers, and 20-plus specialized units to county residents, schools, and inmates.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Law Enforcement Services

NAICS

Police Protection (922120)

akta.pro primary industry

Correctional Facility Operations (Prisons & Jails) (BPAKANAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Crime Prevention & Community Policing Programs (EDALAEAG)

Keywords

• Law enforcement services
• Public safety operations
• Corrections and detention
• School resource officers
• Community policing programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Sevierville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Sevier County Sheriff's Office is a county government law enforcement agency providing comprehensive public safety services to the residents of Sevier County, Tennessee. Core offerings include patrol and criminal investigations, traffic enforcement, corrections and inmate detention, school resource officer coverage for 16 schools, specialized tactical and forensic units (K-9, EOD, Dive Team, SORT, UAV, Video Forensics, NOVAU), sex offender registry management, and community outreach programs such as the Citizen Academy and STOP Program.

Product overview

Sevier County Sheriff's Office provides comprehensive law enforcement services through multiple specialized divisions and programs. The core offerings include patrol and criminal investigation, a School Resource Officer Division serving 16 schools, a Sex Offender Registry tracking 182 offenders, and an Inmate Roster system. Specialized units include NOVAU for narcotics and organized crime, Special Operations (SORT), Video Forensics, UAV (drone), GIS, K-9, Dive Team, and EOD. The office also offers community programs such as the Citizen Academy, STOP Program, Neighborhood Crime Prevention, Senior Outreach, and Kid Camp. Corrections services include inmate detention with video visitation and phone services through third-party providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Law Enforcement Services Core public safety services including patrol division, criminal investigations, traffic enforcement, and special operations for Sevier County residents.
• School Resource Officer Division Dedicated law enforcement officers assigned to schools throughout Sevier County, providing student safety and on-campus law enforcement presence across 16 schools.
• Sex Offender Registry Publicly accessible map-based system displaying registered sex offenders in Sevier County, tracking 182 registered offenders for community awareness and safety.
• Inmate Roster Online portal showing current inmates in Sevier County Jail with search functionality and status notifications for the public.
• Jail and Corrections Services Inmate detention and correctional services at Sevier County Jail and Jail Annex, including video visitation and phone call services (via City Tele Coin) and inmate deposit payment processing (via TBE Jail).
• Community Programs Community outreach programs including Sheriff's Citizen Academy, STOP Program, Neighborhood Crime Prevention Unit, Senior Outreach Program, and Sheriff's Kid Camp.
• Specialized Tactical and Forensic Units Specialized units including Special Operations (SORT), NOVAU (Narcotics and Organized Violent Crime Apprehension), Special Victims Unit, Video Forensics, UAV (drone), GIS, K-9, Dive Team, and EOD for high-risk, technical, and investigative operations.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• National Sheriffs' Association: National membership and standards body for U.S. sheriffs' offices. Comparable in category even though national rather than operational — useful for benchmarking accreditation, training standards, and best-practice divisions (UAV, Video Forensics) that SCSO has adopted.
• Tennessee Sheriffs' Association: Statewide membership organization representing Tennessee's 95 elected county sheriffs. Not a direct operational peer, but the body through which SCSO coordinates peer benchmarking, training, legislative advocacy, and the Sex Offender Registry program referenced in its operations.

Direct peers

• Knox County Sheriff's Office: Neighboring East Tennessee county sheriff's office providing patrol, corrections, criminal investigations, school resource officers, and community programs. Most directly comparable because it sits in the same state with the same statutory role, intersecting at the Sevier-Knox county line and likely handling overflow cases from Sevier County.
• Hamilton County Sheriff's Office: Tennessee county sheriff's office serving Chattanooga/Hamilton County. Functionally identical mandate (patrol, investigations, corrections, court services, civil process) executed at a meaningfully larger scale, making it a useful structural analog even though it serves a denser urban jurisdiction.
• Jefferson County Sheriff's Office: East Tennessee county sheriff's office adjacent to Sevier County along the Douglas Lake corridor. Operates the same Tennessee-Title-8 mandate with parallel divisions for patrol, corrections, and school resource coverage.
• Blount County Sheriff's Office: Adjacent East Tennessee county sheriff covering Maryville/Alcoa and bordering Sevier County. Operates an analogous multi-division structure including patrol, corrections, SROs, and specialized units, with comparable rural/suburban Tennessee population scale.
• Loudon County Sheriff's Office: Nearby East Tennessee county sheriff covering Loudon County and Tellico Lake region. Comparable in scale, tourism exposure, and in the mix of rural-suburban service delivery that characterizes SCSO's operating environment.
• Cocke County Sheriff's Office: East Tennessee county sheriff office bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — shares Sevier County's tourism-adjacent public-safety profile. Comparable small-county law-enforcement scope with similar Mountain-border geography.
• Hamblen County Sheriff's Office: East Tennessee county sheriff serving Morristown and Hamblen County, sharing the same state code framework and statutory mandate as SCSO. Operates similar patrol, corrections, and SRO functions at a comparable small-county scale.

Broad incumbents

• Shelby County Sheriff's Office: Tennessee's largest county sheriff's office serving Memphis/Shelby County. Plays the same statutory role but operates at an order-of-magnitude larger scale with broader specialized units (air support, marine, large corrections complex), useful for understanding what fully-built-out sheriff capabilities look like.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SevierCountySheriffsOffice
• Instagraminstagram.com/seviercosheriff_tn/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
• Xx.com/seviersheriff
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/seviercountysheriffsoffice

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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