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. 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 26, 2026.
Elm Grove, Wisconsin, in Waukesha County, has about 6,400 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Waukesha County Circuit 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: Elm Grove public records, Waukesha County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Elm Grove
The FBI lists Elm Grove with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Elm Grove Police Department. It reported 110 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 Waukesha County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,041 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Elm Grove 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.
- Elm Grove: 110 for 2025, 82 for 2024, 179 for 2023, 160 for 2022, 168 for 2021 and 145 for 2020.
Elm Grove's 110 arrests in 2025 were up 34 percent from 82 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Elm Grove reported 47 arrests, against 21 in the same months of 2025.
Across Waukesha County, the 16 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,658 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Elm Grove Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Elm Grove 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 2025 the jail held about 470 people, down from about 500 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 807 beds, and it ran at 59 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office at waukeshacounty.gov/sheriff/jail-division/current-inmate-list (page title: Current Inmate List | Waukesha County), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/welcome.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Elm Grove
Whether someone was arrested in Elm Grove, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Waukesha County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at waukeshacounty.gov/circuit-courts/information-pages/court-record-in...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at waukeshacounty.gov/district-attorney, phone 262-548-7076).
Statewide, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access is the free statewide case search of every circuit court.
Wisconsin is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check, through the Wisconsin Department of Justice. 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 Elm Grove
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the agency must answer as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying and locating, with no charge for the first $50 of locating.
- An arrest by the Elm Grove police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at elmgrovewi.org/DocumentCenter/View/349/Open-Records-Notice1-2008 (page title: NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF PUBLIC RECORDS WISCONSIN STATUTE CHAPTER 19), phone 262-780-6676, 13600 Juneau Blvd, Elm Grove, WI 53122, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 262-548-7076, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Waukesha County Circuit Court, through the court records page at waukeshacounty.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Waukesha County guide covers every agency in the county: Waukesha County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Elm Grove each year?
Elm Grove reported 110 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Elm Grove?
Look on the custody page of the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office at waukeshacounty.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Elm Grove booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Elm Grove?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Wisconsin Department of Justice: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wisconsin Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Elm Grove?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Elm Grove police for its own arrests, the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the answer is due as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days.
Is this the official Elm Grove 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.