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 October 2, 2026.
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, in Kenosha County, has about 22,000 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 Kenosha 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: Pleasant Prairie public records, Kenosha County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Pleasant Prairie
The FBI lists Pleasant Prairie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Pleasant Prairie Police Department. It reported 617 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 Kenosha County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,564 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kenosha County: the University of Wisconsin at Parkside (campus police).
How Many Arrests Pleasant Prairie 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.
- Pleasant Prairie: 617 for 2025, 767 for 2024, 733 for 2023, 808 for 2022, 731 for 2021 and 965 for 2020.
Pleasant Prairie's 617 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 767 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Pleasant Prairie reported 195 arrests, against 196 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kenosha County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,446 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Pleasant Prairie Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Pleasant Prairie 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 520 people, down from about 700 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 775 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Kenosha County Sheriff's Office at kenoshacountywi.gov/1815/Inmate-Searches (page title: Inmate Searches | Kenosha County, WI), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 2, 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 Wisconsin Department of Corrections lists its inmates at appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/welcome.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Pleasant Prairie
An arrest in Pleasant Prairie can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kenosha County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kenoshacountywi.gov/1311/Court-Case-Tracker); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kenoshacountywi.gov/148/District-Attorney, phone 262-653-2400).
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 Pleasant Prairie
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 Pleasant Prairie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at pleasantprairiewi.gov/departments/police/police_records_bureau (page title: Police Records Bureau | Village of Pleasant Prairie), phone 262-948-8912, Monday - Friday (Except for Holidays) 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 262-653-2400, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kenosha County Circuit Court, through the court records page at kenoshacountywi.gov/1311/Court-Case-Tracker.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kenoshacountywi.gov/2463/DCFS-Records-Request (page title: DCFS Records Request | Kenosha County, WI).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Kenosha County guide covers every agency in the county: Kenosha County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Pleasant Prairie each year?
Pleasant Prairie reported 617 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Pleasant Prairie?
Look on the custody page of the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office at kenoshacountywi.gov/1815/Inmate-Searches. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Pleasant Prairie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kenosha County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Pleasant Prairie?
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 Pleasant Prairie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Pleasant Prairie police for its own arrests, the Kenosha 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 kenoshacountywi.gov/2463/DCFS-Records-Request.
Is this the official Pleasant Prairie 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.