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 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Beadle County, South Dakota, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Beadle County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court for Beadle County. 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: Beadle County public records, South Dakota arrest records, South Dakota inmate search and South Dakota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Beadle County
The Beadle County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Beadle County. It reported 12 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Beadle County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Huron, 14,515 residents: 499 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Beadle 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.
- Huron: 499 for 2025, 438 for 2024, 539 for 2023, 632 for 2021, 544 for 2020 and 728 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Beadle County Sheriff's Office: 12 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 2 for 2020 and 18 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 511 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 511 in 2025 against 456 in 2024, up 12 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Beadle County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Beadle 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.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 31 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 62 beds, and it ran at 50 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the South Dakota Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.sd.gov/adult-corrections/offender-locator.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Beadle County
Whether someone was arrested in Beadle County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Circuit Court for Beadle County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dakotaathome.sd.gov/search/fa50e1d7-0e52-5403-86bc-14d762887fa3, phone 605-353-7165); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at beadlesd.org/201/State-Attorney, phone (605) 353-8430).
Statewide, UJS Public Access Record Search is the South Dakota courts' statewide search, with a fee per name.
South Dakota does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Beadle 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 South Dakota Open Records Law the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge copying and staff time.
- An arrest by the Beadle County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Huron: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (605) 353-8430, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court for Beadle County, through the court records page at dakotaathome.sd.gov, phone 605-353-7165.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Beadle County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the eight cities in Beadle County: Huron. Wolsey, Wessington, Cavour, Yale, Hitchcock, Broadland and Virgil 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 Circuit Court for Beadle County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Beadle County each year?
Huron reported 499 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 511 between them.
Where are people arrested in Beadle County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Beadle County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Beadle County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Beadle County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Dakota Open Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Beadle County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Beadle County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the South Dakota Open Records Law the answer is due within 10 business days.
Is this the official Beadle 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.