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.
Outagamie County, Wisconsin, has about 195,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office and eight 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 Outagamie 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: Outagamie County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Outagamie County
The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Outagamie County. It reported 1,048 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five 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:
- Appleton, 75,344 residents: 2,611 arrests reported for 2025.
- Kaukauna, 18,363 residents: 484 arrests reported for 2025.
- Seymour, 3,631 residents: 111 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hortonville, 3,331 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2024.
- Shiocton, 932 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2019.
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 Wrightstown Police Department and the New London Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Outagamie County, so their arrests are not broken out for Outagamie County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Outagamie 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.
- Appleton: 2,611 for 2025, 2,601 for 2024, 3,260 for 2023, 2,986 for 2022, 2,856 for 2021 and 2,679 for 2020.
- Freedom: 1,159 for 2025, 1,166 for 2024, 1,176 for 2023, 1,176 for 2022, 1,142 for 2021 and 1,184 for 2020.
- Outagamie County Sheriff's Office: 1,048 for 2025, 971 for 2024, 890 for 2023, 870 for 2022, 744 for 2021 and 666 for 2020.
- Kaukauna: 484 for 2025, 425 for 2024, 529 for 2023, 478 for 2022, 559 for 2021 and 545 for 2020.
- Fox Valley Metro: 469 for 2025, 577 for 2024, 630 for 2023, 501 for 2021, 515 for 2020 and 594 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Seymour: 111 for 2025, 111 for 2023, 121 for 2022, 113 for 2021, 158 for 2020 and 291 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Grand Chute: 1,731 for 2024, 1,636 for 2023, 1,380 for 2022, 1,357 for 2021, 1,287 for 2020 and 1,348 for 2019.
- Hortonville: 33 for 2024, 31 for 2023, 59 for 2022, 102 for 2020 and 145 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Shiocton: 22 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,882 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,771 in 2025 against 5,740 in 2024, up 0.5 percent.
Through March 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,286 arrests, against 1,365 in the same months of 2025.
Shiocton, Hortonville and Grand Chute reported only part of 2025 (6 months, 7 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Outagamie County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Outagamie County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 350 people, down from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 499 beds, and it ran at 70 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 Outagamie County Sheriff's Office at outagamie.gov/Our-County/Sheriffs-Office/Corrections-Division/Recen... (page title: Recent Bookings (Media Report) | Outagamie County, Wisconsin), 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 Outagamie County
An arrest in Outagamie County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Outagamie County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at wicourts.gov/SearchWicourts?q=dyer&fq=&pager.offset=100).
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 Outagamie 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 Outagamie County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Appleton, Kaukauna, Seymour, Hortonville or Shiocton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Outagamie County Circuit Court, through the court records page at wicourts.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at outagamie.gov (page title: Open Records Request | Outagamie County, Wisconsin).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Outagamie County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the 12 cities in Outagamie County: Appleton, Kaukauna, Seymour, Hortonville and Shiocton. Greenville, Little Chute, Kimberly, Combined Locks, Black Creek, Bear Creek and Nichols have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Fox Valley Metro Police Department, the Grand Chute Police Department and the Freedom Police Department as city agencies in Outagamie County; Fox Valley Metro, Grand Chute and Freedom are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Outagamie County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Outagamie County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Appleton (75,344)
- Kaukauna (18,363)
- Greenville (13,273)
- Little Chute (11,761)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Outagamie County each year?
Appleton reported 2,611 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,882 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Outagamie County?
Look on the custody page of the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office at outagamie.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Outagamie County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Outagamie County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Outagamie 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 Outagamie County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Outagamie 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 outagamie.gov.
Is this the official Outagamie 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.