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.
Dunn County, Wisconsin, has about 46,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dunn County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Dunn 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: Dunn County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dunn County
The Dunn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dunn County. It reported 596 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Menomonie, 16,709 residents: 803 arrests reported for 2025.
- Colfax, 1,204 residents: 42 arrests reported for 2019.
- Boyceville, 1,094 residents: 62 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elk Mound, 1,094 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Dunn County: the University of Wisconsin at Stout (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Dunn 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.
- Menomonie: 803 for 2025, 774 for 2024, 795 for 2023, 848 for 2022, 761 for 2021 and 676 for 2020.
- Boyceville: 62 for 2025, 99 for 2024, 85 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 66 for 2021 and 39 for 2020.
- Elk Mound: 51 for 2025, 77 for 2024, 64 for 2022, 37 for 2021, 35 for 2020 and 67 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Dunn County Sheriff's Office: 596 for 2023, 416 for 2021 and 887 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Colfax: 42 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 916 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 916 in 2025 against 950 in 2024, down 3.6 percent.
Dunn County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dunn County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dunn 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 88 people, down from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 160 beds, and it ran at 55 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 Dunn County Sheriff's Office at dunncountywi.gov/index.asp (page title: CURRENT INMATE LISTING | ADD HERE | Dunn County, WI), 3001 US Highway 12 East, Suite 225, Menomonie, WI 54751, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Dunn County
An arrest in Dunn County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Dunn County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Dunn County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at dunncountywi.gov/clerkofcourts, phone 800-362-9082); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at dunncountywi.gov/da, phone (715) 232-1687).
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 Dunn 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 Dunn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Menomonie, Colfax, Boyceville or Elk Mound: 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 Stout: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (715) 232-1687, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dunn County Circuit Court, through the court records page at dunncountywi.gov/clerkofcourts, phone 800-362-9082.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dunncountywi.seamlessdocs.com/f/publicrequest (page title: [Dunn County, WI] Public Records Request Form).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Dunn County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Dunn County: Menomonie, Colfax, Boyceville and Elk Mound. Knapp, Wheeler, Ridgeland and Downing 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 Dunn County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Dunn County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Menomonie (16,709)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dunn County each year?
Menomonie reported 803 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 916 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Dunn County?
Look on the custody page of the Dunn County Sheriff's Office at dunncountywi.gov/index.asp. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Dunn County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dunn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dunn 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 Dunn County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dunn 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 dunncountywi.seamlessdocs.com/f/publicrequest.
Is this the official Dunn 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.