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.
Chippewa County, Wisconsin, has about 67,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. 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 Chippewa 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: Chippewa County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Chippewa County
The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Chippewa County. It reported 806 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Chippewa Falls, 15,075 residents: 675 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lake Hallie, 7,349 residents: 225 arrests reported for 2023.
- Stanley, 3,778 residents: 109 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bloomer, 3,646 residents: 101 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cornell, 1,452 residents: 51 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 Eau Claire Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Chippewa County, so its arrests are not broken out for Chippewa County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Chippewa 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.
- Chippewa County Sheriff's Office: 806 for 2025, 888 for 2024, 838 for 2023, 973 for 2022, 1,017 for 2021 and 1,048 for 2020.
- Chippewa Falls: 675 for 2025, 810 for 2024, 883 for 2023, 809 for 2022, 786 for 2021 and 777 for 2020.
- Stanley: 109 for 2025, 128 for 2024, 116 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 46 for 2021 and 77 for 2020.
- Bloomer: 101 for 2025, 102 for 2024, 99 for 2023, 83 for 2022, 131 for 2021 and 133 for 2020.
- Cornell: 51 for 2025, 31 for 2022, 61 for 2020 and 96 for 2019; 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Lake Hallie: 225 for 2023, 388 for 2022, 351 for 2021, 284 for 2020 and 541 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,742 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,691 in 2025 against 1,928 in 2024, down 12 percent.
Through March 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 398 arrests, against 397 in the same months of 2025.
Lake Hallie reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chippewa County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chippewa County 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 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 Chippewa County
Whether someone was arrested in Chippewa County, 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 Chippewa 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 Chippewa County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Chippewa Falls, Lake Hallie, Stanley, Bloomer or Cornell: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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.
Cities in Chippewa County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the eight cities in Chippewa County: Chippewa Falls, Lake Hallie, Stanley, Bloomer and Cornell. Cadott, Boyd and New Auburn 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 Chippewa County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Chippewa County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lake Hallie (7,349)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chippewa County each year?
The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office reported 806 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,742 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chippewa County?
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 Chippewa County 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 Chippewa 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 Chippewa County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chippewa 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.
Is this the official Chippewa 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.