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 2023. 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.
Lake Hallie, Wisconsin, in Chippewa County, has about 7,300 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 Chippewa 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: Lake Hallie public records, Chippewa County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lake Hallie
The FBI lists Lake Hallie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lake Hallie Police Department. It reported 225 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. 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 Chippewa County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 806 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Lake Hallie 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.
- Lake Hallie: 225 for 2023, 388 for 2022, 351 for 2021, 284 for 2020 and 541 for 2019.
Lake Hallie's 225 arrests in 2023 were down 42 percent from 388 in 2022.
Across Chippewa County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,742 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lake Hallie Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lake Hallie 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 2025 the jail held about 94 people, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 198 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Chippewa County Sheriff's Office at chippewacountywi.gov/474/Inmate-Roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Chippewa County, WI), 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 Lake Hallie
Whether someone was arrested in Lake Hallie, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Chippewa County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at wicourts.gov/casesearch.htm); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at chippewacountywi.gov/183/District-Attorney, phone 715-726-7740).
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 Lake Hallie
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 Lake Hallie police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at lakehallie.us/police-department (page title: Police Department | Village of Lake Hallie | Village of Lake Hallie), phone (715) 726-2665, Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 715-726-7740, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Chippewa County Circuit Court, through the court records page at wicourts.gov/casesearch.htm.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Chippewa County guide covers every agency in the county: Chippewa County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lake Hallie each year?
Lake Hallie reported 225 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lake Hallie?
Look on the custody page of the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office at chippewacountywi.gov/474/Inmate-Roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Lake Hallie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lake Hallie?
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 Lake Hallie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lake Hallie police for its own arrests, the Chippewa 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 Lake Hallie 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.