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.
Langlade County, Wisconsin, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Langlade County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Langlade 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: Langlade County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Langlade County
The Langlade County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Langlade County. It reported 157 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Langlade County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Antigo, 8,096 residents: 372 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Langlade County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Antigo: 372 for 2025, 424 for 2023, 451 for 2022, 402 for 2021, 428 for 2020 and 589 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Langlade County Sheriff's Office: 157 for 2025, 255 for 2024, 241 for 2022, 290 for 2021 and 239 for 2020; 2023 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 529 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 157 in 2025 against 255 in 2024, down 38 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Langlade County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Langlade 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 68 people, down from about 93 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 119 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Langlade County Sheriff's Office at co.langlade.wi.us/departments/sheriffs-office/general/corrections (page title: The Official Langlade County Government Web Site | Departments | Sheriff's Office | Corrections), phone 715-627-6444, 840 Clermont St Antigo, WI 54409, Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 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 Langlade County
Whether someone was arrested in Langlade County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Langlade County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.langlade.wi.us/departments/clerk-of-circuit-court/general/criminal, phone 715-627-6215); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.langlade.wi.us/departments/district-attorney, phone (715) 627-6411).
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 Langlade 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 Langlade County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 715-627-6444.
- An arrest in Antigo: 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, (715) 627-6411, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Langlade County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.langlade.wi.us, phone 715-627-6215.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.langlade.wi.us (page title: The Official Langlade County Government Web Site | Departments | Sheriff's Office | Open Records).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Langlade County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Langlade County: Antigo. White Lake 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 Langlade County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Langlade County each year?
Antigo reported 372 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 529 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Langlade County?
Ask the Langlade County Sheriff's Office at 715-627-6444; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.langlade.wi.us.
Where are people arrested in Langlade County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Langlade County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Langlade 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 Langlade County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Langlade 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.langlade.wi.us.
Is this the official Langlade 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.