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 between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Menominee County, Michigan, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Menominee County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Menominee County Circuit Court. 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: Menominee County public records, Michigan arrest records, Michigan inmate search and Michigan criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Menominee County
The Menominee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Menominee County. It reported 152 arrests for 2019, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Menominee County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Menominee, 8,231 residents: 513 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Menominee County: the Menominee County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Menominee 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.
- Menominee: 513 for 2025, 633 for 2024, 575 for 2023, 582 for 2022, 580 for 2021 and 415 for 2020.
- Menominee County Sheriff's Office: 152 for 2019.
Menominee's 513 arrests in 2025 were down 19 percent from 633 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Menominee reported 366 arrests, against 396 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Menominee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Menominee 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 2020 the jail held about 36 people, down from about 57 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 51 beds, and it ran at 112 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 Michigan Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Menominee County
Whether someone was arrested in Menominee County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Menominee County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.michigan.gov/search/?searchQuery=district+court+menominee); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at menomineecountymi.gov/departments/prosecuting-attorney, phone (906) 863-2002).
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
Michigan is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10 a search, through the Michigan State Police. 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 Menominee 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 Michigan Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps.
- An arrest by the Menominee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Menominee: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Menominee County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (906) 863-2002, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Menominee County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.michigan.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Menominee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the five cities in Menominee County: Menominee. Stephenson, Powers, Daggett and Carney have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Menominee County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Menominee County each year?
Menominee reported 513 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Menominee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Menominee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Menominee County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Menominee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Menominee County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension.
Is this the official Menominee 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.