Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Brown County, Wisconsin, has about 274,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Brown County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one campus agency. An arrest 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 Brown County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Brown County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Brown County
The Brown County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Brown County. It reported 1,110 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Brown County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Green Bay, 106,311 residents: 5,716 arrests reported for 2025.
- De Pere, 25,453 residents: 619 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ashwaubenon, 17,437 residents: 897 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hobart, 10,876 residents: 98 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wrightstown, 4,041 residents.
- Pulaski, 3,998 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Brown County: the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Brown County
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.
- Green Bay: 5,716 for 2025, 5,797 for 2024, 5,372 for 2023, 6,119 for 2022, 5,318 for 2021 and 5,299 for 2020.
- Brown County Sheriff's Office: 1,110 for 2025, 1,573 for 2024, 1,938 for 2023, 2,118 for 2022 and 1,591 for 2021.
- Ashwaubenon: 897 for 2025, 990 for 2024, 767 for 2023, 872 for 2022, 696 for 2021 and 673 for 2020.
- De Pere: 619 for 2025, 753 for 2024, 706 for 2023, 618 for 2022, 643 for 2021 and 632 for 2020.
- Hobart: 98 for 2025, 87 for 2024, 71 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 69 for 2021 and 148 for 2020.
- Pulaski: 22 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 20 for 2023, 58 for 2020 and 160 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 8,462 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 8,462 in 2025 against 9,234 in 2024, down 8.4 percent.
Through March 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,227 arrests, against 2,085 in the same months of 2025.
Wrightstown reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brown County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Brown County 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 640 people, up from about 490 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 662 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Brown County Sheriff's Office at browncountywi.gov/services/jail-inmate-lookup-tool (page title: Brown County > Services > All > Jail Inmate Lookup Tool), 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 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 Brown County
An arrest in Brown County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Brown County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Brown County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at browncountywi.gov/departments/clerk-of-circuit-court/general-inform...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at browncountywi.gov/government/district-attorney/general-information/...).
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 Brown County
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 Brown County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Green Bay, De Pere, Ashwaubenon, Hobart, Wrightstown or Pulaski: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Brown County Circuit Court, through the court records page at browncountywi.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at browncountywi.gov/services/records-requests (page title: Brown County > Services > All > Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Brown County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 11 cities in Brown County: Green Bay, De Pere, Ashwaubenon, Hobart, Wrightstown and Pulaski. Howard, Bellevue, Allouez, Suamico and Denmark have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Brown County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Brown County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- De Pere (25,453)
- Ashwaubenon (17,437)
- Bellevue (16,749)
- Allouez (13,923)
- Hobart (10,876)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brown County each year?
Green Bay reported 5,716 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 8,462 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brown County?
Look on the custody page of the Brown County Sheriff's Office at browncountywi.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Brown County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brown County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brown County?
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 Brown County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brown County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 browncountywi.gov/services/records-requests.
Is this the official Brown County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.