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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Dodge County, Nebraska, has about 38,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dodge County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies 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 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 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: Dodge County public records, Nebraska arrest records, Nebraska inmate search and Nebraska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dodge County
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dodge County. It reported 355 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Dodge County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Fremont, 28,190 residents: 658 arrests reported for 2025.
- Scribner, 816 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hooper, 796 residents.
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 Dodge County: the State Patrol in Dodge County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dodge County
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.
- Dodge County Sheriff's Office: 355 for 2025, 391 for 2024, 368 for 2023, 436 for 2021 and 952 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Scribner: 1 for 2025.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,014 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,013 in 2025 against 1,146 in 2024, down 12 percent.
Dodge Snyder and Hooper reported only part of 2025 (2 months and 3 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dodge County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Dodge County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
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 Dodge County
An arrest in Dodge County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Dodge County
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 Dodge County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Fremont, Scribner or Hooper: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the State Patrol in Dodge County: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Dodge County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the ten cities in Dodge County: Fremont, Scribner and Hooper. North Bend, Dodge, Inglewood, Nickerson, Snyder, Uehling and Winslow have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Dodge Snyder Police Department as a city agency in Dodge County; Dodge Snyder is not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Dodge County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Dodge County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Fremont (28,190)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dodge County each year?
Fremont reported 658 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,014 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dodge County?
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 Dodge County 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 Dodge County?
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 Dodge County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dodge County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Nebraska Public Records Statutes the answer is due within 4 business days.
Is this the official Dodge 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.