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 30, 2026.
Menomonie, Wisconsin, in Dunn County, has about 17,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Dunn 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: Menomonie public records, Dunn County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Menomonie
The FBI lists Menomonie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Menomonie Police Department. It reported 803 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 Dunn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 596 arrests for 2023.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Dunn County: the University of Wisconsin at Stout (campus police).
How Many Arrests Menomonie 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.
- Menomonie: 803 for 2025, 774 for 2024, 795 for 2023, 848 for 2022, 761 for 2021 and 676 for 2020.
Menomonie's 803 arrests in 2025 were up 3.7 percent from 774 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Menomonie reported 115 arrests, against 186 in the same months of 2025.
Across Dunn County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 916 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Menomonie Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Menomonie 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 88 people, down from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 160 beds, and it ran at 55 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 Dunn County Sheriff's Office at dunncountywi.gov/index.asp (page title: CURRENT INMATE LISTING | ADD HERE | Dunn County, WI), 3001 US Highway 12 East, Suite 225, Menomonie, WI 54751, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Menomonie
An arrest in Menomonie can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dunn County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dunn County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dunncountywi.gov/clerkofcourts, phone 800-362-9082); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dunncountywi.gov/da, phone (715) 232-1687).
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 Menomonie
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 Menomonie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at menomonie-wi.gov/468/Request-a-Record (page title: Request a Record | Menomonie, WI), phone (715) 232-2198, 615 Stokke Pkwy, Suite G200, Menomonie WI 54751, monie WI 54751 Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Dunn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (715) 232-1687, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dunn County Circuit Court, through the court records page at dunncountywi.gov/clerkofcourts, phone 800-362-9082.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dunncountywi.seamlessdocs.com/f/publicrequest (page title: [Dunn County, WI] Public Records Request Form).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Dunn County guide covers every agency in the county: Dunn County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Menomonie each year?
Menomonie reported 803 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Menomonie?
Look on the custody page of the Dunn County Sheriff's Office at dunncountywi.gov/index.asp. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Menomonie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dunn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Menomonie?
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 Menomonie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Menomonie police for its own arrests, the Dunn 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dunncountywi.seamlessdocs.com/f/publicrequest.
Is this the official Menomonie 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.