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 between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Dodge County, Wisconsin, has about 89,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dodge County Sheriff's Office and 12 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 Dodge 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: Dodge County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dodge County
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dodge County. It reported 1,558 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 12 cities in Dodge County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Beaver Dam (township), 16,443 residents.
- Beaver Dam, 16,443 residents: 702 arrests reported for 2025.
- Waupun, 11,131 residents: 239 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mayville, 5,205 residents: 175 arrests reported for 2025.
- Horicon, 3,898 residents: 107 arrests reported for 2025.
- Juneau, 2,699 residents: 50 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lomira, 2,671 residents: 69 arrests reported for 2022.
- Fox Lake, 1,682 residents: 21 arrests reported for 2019.
- Theresa, 1,280 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2020.
- Hustisford, 1,074 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2023.
- Iron Ridge, 918 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2020.
- Brownsville, 650 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Watertown Police Department and the Hartford Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Dodge County, so their arrests are not broken out for Dodge County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dodge 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.
- Dodge County Sheriff's Office: 1,558 for 2025, 1,623 for 2024, 1,369 for 2023, 1,402 for 2022, 1,365 for 2021 and 1,251 for 2020.
- Beaver Dam: 702 for 2025, 763 for 2024, 798 for 2023, 659 for 2022, 706 for 2021 and 865 for 2020.
- Waupun: 239 for 2025, 208 for 2024, 154 for 2023, 139 for 2022, 183 for 2021 and 287 for 2020.
- Horicon: 107 for 2025, 87 for 2024, 73 for 2023, 133 for 2020 and 159 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Mayville: 175 for 2025, 172 for 2024, 185 for 2023, 169 for 2022, 122 for 2021 and 96 for 2020.
- Lomira: 69 for 2022, 71 for 2021, 55 for 2020 and 68 for 2019.
- Juneau: 50 for 2025, 25 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 53 for 2020 and 61 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Theresa: 27 for 2020 and 31 for 2019.
- Iron Ridge: 12 for 2020 and 2 for 2019.
- Brownsville: 1 for 2020 and 19 for 2019.
- Hustisford: 37 for 2023.
- Fox Lake: 21 for 2019.
Together, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2020 on file reported 2,780 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2020 and 2019 complete reported 2,780 in 2020 against 3,358 in 2019, down 17 percent.
Beaver Dam (township) and Fox Lake reported only part of 2020 (6 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dodge County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dodge 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 300 people, down from about 340 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 358 beds, and it ran at 85 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 Dodge County Sheriff's Office at dodgecounty.wisconsininmatepopulation.us (page title: Dodge County Inmate Population | Custody Search), phone 120 103 2023, 216 W. Center Street Juneau, WI 53039, 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 Dodge County
An arrest in Dodge County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dodge County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.dodge.wi.gov/government/courts); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.dodge.wi.gov/district-attorney, phone 920-386-3610).
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 Dodge 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 Dodge County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 120 103 2023.
- An arrest in Beaver Dam (township), Beaver Dam, Waupun, Mayville, Horicon, Juneau or another of the cities listed above: 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, 920-386-3610, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dodge County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.dodge.wi.gov/government/courts.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.dodge.wi.gov/courts-clerk/request (page title: Request a Record | Dodge County, Wisconsin).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Dodge County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 12 of the 17 cities in Dodge County: Beaver Dam (township), Beaver Dam, Waupun, Mayville, Horicon, Juneau, Lomira, Fox Lake, Theresa, Hustisford, Iron Ridge and Brownsville. Randolph, Kekoskee, Reeseville, Neosho, Clyman and Lowell 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 Dodge County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Dodge County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Beaver Dam (16,443)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dodge County each year?
The Dodge County Sheriff's Office reported 1,558 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2020, the latest year most of the agencies in Dodge County sent in full, the ten with every month on file reported 2,780 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dodge County?
Look on the custody page of the Dodge County Sheriff's Office at dodgecounty.wisconsininmatepopulation.us, or call 120 103 2023. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Dodge County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dodge County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dodge 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 Dodge County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dodge 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 co.dodge.wi.gov/courts-clerk/request.
Is this the official Dodge 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.