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.
Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Kewaunee 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: Kewaunee County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Kewaunee County
The Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Kewaunee County. It reported 295 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Kewaunee County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Algoma, 3,226 residents: 40 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kewaunee, 2,808 residents: 120 arrests reported for 2025.
- Luxemburg, 2,765 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2024.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Kewaunee 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.
- Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office: 295 for 2025, 370 for 2024, 405 for 2023, 388 for 2022, 366 for 2021 and 324 for 2020.
- Kewaunee: 120 for 2025, 150 for 2024, 129 for 2023, 182 for 2022, 158 for 2021 and 142 for 2020.
- Algoma: 40 for 2025, 104 for 2024, 50 for 2023, 83 for 2022, 52 for 2021 and 44 for 2020.
- Luxemburg: 22 for 2024, 31 for 2023, 24 for 2022 and 32 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 455 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 455 in 2025 against 624 in 2024, down 27 percent.
Luxemburg reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Kewaunee County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Kewaunee 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 14 people, down from about 17 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 16 beds, and it ran at 91 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 Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office at kewauneeco.org/departments/sheriff (page title: Kewaunee County | Departments | Sheriff), phone (920) 388-3100, 620 Juneau Street Kewaunee, WI 54216, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Kewaunee County
For Kewaunee County the place to look is Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, the free statewide case search of every circuit court, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Kewaunee 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 Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (920) 388-3100.
- An arrest in Algoma, Kewaunee or Luxemburg: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Kewaunee County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Kewaunee County: Algoma, Kewaunee and Luxemburg. Casco has 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 Kewaunee County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Kewaunee County each year?
The Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office reported 295 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 455 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Kewaunee County?
Ask the Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office at (920) 388-3100; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at kewauneeco.org/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Kewaunee County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kewaunee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Kewaunee 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 Kewaunee County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Kewaunee 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 Kewaunee 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.