Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Fremont, Nebraska, in Dodge County, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Dodge County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Fremont public records, Dodge County arrest records, Nebraska arrest records and Nebraska inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Fremont
The FBI lists Fremont with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Fremont Police Department. It reported 658 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 355 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Dodge County: the State Patrol in Dodge County (state police).
How Many Arrests Fremont Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Fremont: 658 for 2025, 755 for 2024, 853 for 2021, 720 for 2020 and 879 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Fremont's 658 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 755 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Fremont reported 408 arrests, against 372 in the same months of 2025.
Across Dodge County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,014 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fremont Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fremont 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.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office at dodgecountysheriff.org/jail-population (page title: Jail Population | Dodge Co. Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services lists its inmates at dcs-inmatesearch.ne.gov/Corrections/COR_input.jsp.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Fremont
Whether someone was arrested in Fremont, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dodge County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dodgecounty.nebraska.gov/attorney, phone (402) 727-2725).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov/courts/dodge-county-court (page title: Dodge County Court | Nebraska Judicial Branch), phone 402-727-2779, belongs to a lower court, not to the Dodge County District Court.
Statewide, Nebraska Trial Court Case Search is the Nebraska Judicial Branch's statewide case search, with a fee per search.
Nebraska is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online, through the Nebraska State Patrol. 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 Fremont
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the agency must answer within 4 business days, and it may charge copying, and staff time after the first four hours.
- An arrest by the Fremont police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at fremontne.gov/550/Records (page title: Records | Fremont, NE), phone 402-727-2600, 725 N Park Ave 2nd Floor Fremont, NE 68025, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
- An arrest by the Dodge County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (402) 727-2725, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Dodge County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at nebraskajudicial.gov, phone 402-727-2779, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Dodge County guide covers every agency in the county: Dodge County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fremont each year?
Fremont reported 658 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fremont?
Look on the custody page of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office at dodgecountysheriff.org/jail-population. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Fremont booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dodge County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fremont?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Nebraska State Patrol: the Patrol sells name-based criminal history checks to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Fremont?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fremont police for its own arrests, the Dodge County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Fremont website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.