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.
Juneau County, Wisconsin, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Juneau County Sheriff's Office and four 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 Juneau 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: Juneau County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Juneau County
The Juneau County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Juneau County. It reported 614 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists four cities in Juneau County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Mauston, 4,147 residents: 267 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Lisbon, 2,586 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2025.
- Elroy, 1,267 residents: 41 arrests reported for 2020.
- Lyndon Station, 477 residents.
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 Wisconsin Dells Police Department is listed by the FBI across four counties including Juneau County, so its arrests are not broken out for Juneau County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Juneau 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.
- Mauston: 267 for 2025, 247 for 2024, 315 for 2022 and 230 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
- New Lisbon: 38 for 2025, 63 for 2024, 39 for 2023, 38 for 2021 and 47 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Juneau County Sheriff's Office: 614 for 2022 and 683 for 2021.
- Elroy: 41 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 305 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 305 in 2025 against 310 in 2024, down 1.6 percent.
Through March 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 59 arrests, against 87 in the same months of 2025.
Juneau County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Juneau County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Juneau 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 76 people, down from about 94 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 152 beds, and it ran at 50 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 Juneau County Sheriff's Office at co.juneau.wi.gov/departments/sheriff_s_office/jail/index.php (page title: Juneau County, WI), phone 608-847-9419, 200 Oak St., Mauston, WI 53948, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Juneau County
Whether someone was arrested in Juneau County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Juneau County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.juneau.wi.gov/departments/clerk_of_court/court_records_request.php); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.juneau.wi.gov/departments/district_attorney/index.php, phone 608-847-9314).
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 Juneau County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Juneau County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 608-847-9419.
- An arrest in Mauston, New Lisbon, Elroy or Lyndon Station: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 608-847-9314, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Juneau County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.juneau.wi.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.juneau.wi.gov (page title: Juneau County, WI).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Juneau County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the nine cities in Juneau County: Mauston, New Lisbon, Elroy and Lyndon Station. Necedah, Wonewoc, Camp Douglas, Union Center and Hustler 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 Juneau County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Juneau County each year?
Mauston reported 267 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 305 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Juneau County?
Ask the Juneau County Sheriff's Office at 608-847-9419; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.juneau.wi.gov.
Where are people arrested in Juneau County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Juneau County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Juneau 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 Juneau County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Juneau 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.juneau.wi.gov.
Is this the official Juneau 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.