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 25, 2026.
Reedsburg, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, has about 10,000 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 Sauk 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: Reedsburg public records, Sauk County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Reedsburg
The FBI lists Reedsburg with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Reedsburg Police Department. It reported 345 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 Sauk County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,062 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Reedsburg 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.
- Reedsburg: 345 for 2025, 428 for 2024, 509 for 2023, 405 for 2022, 429 for 2021 and 609 for 2020.
Reedsburg's 345 arrests in 2025 were down 19 percent from 428 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Reedsburg reported 86 arrests, against 91 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sauk County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,704 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Reedsburg Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Reedsburg 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 110 people, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 177 beds, and it ran at 64 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Sauk County Sheriff's Office at co.sauk.wi.us/sheriffsoffice/daily-inmate-counts (page title: Daily Inmate Counts | Sauk County Wisconsin Official Website), phone (608) 356-4895, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Reedsburg
An arrest in Reedsburg can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Sauk County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us/clerkofcourts/ccap-circuit-court-system-access, phone (608) 355-3287); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.sauk.wi.us/districtattorney, phone 608-355-3280).
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 Reedsburg
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 Reedsburg police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at reedsburgwi.gov/police (page title: Police | Reedsburg, Wisconsin), phone (608) 524 2376, 200 S. Park Street Reedsburg, WI 53959, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sauk County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (608) 356-4895.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 608-355-3280, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sauk County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.sauk.wi.us, phone (608) 355-3287.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us (page title: Public Records Requests | Sauk County Wisconsin Official Website).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Sauk County guide covers every agency in the county: Sauk County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Reedsburg each year?
Reedsburg reported 345 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Reedsburg?
Ask the Sauk County Sheriff's Office at (608) 356-4895; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us.
Where are people arrested in Reedsburg booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sauk County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Reedsburg?
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 Reedsburg?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Reedsburg police for its own arrests, the Sauk 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 co.sauk.wi.us.
Is this the official Reedsburg 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.