Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026.
Outagamie County, Wisconsin, has about 195,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Wisconsin the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of Circuit Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Wisconsin Department of Justice is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Outagamie County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Outagamie County Circuit Court
In Wisconsin the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Outagamie County are heard by the Outagamie County Circuit Court, which hears every civil, criminal, family, probate and juvenile case, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of Circuit Court.
For Outagamie County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at wicourts.gov/SearchWicourts?q=dyer&fq=&pager.offset=100 (page title: Wisconsin Court System | Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access is the free statewide case search of every circuit court.
The Wisconsin Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Outagamie County
The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Appleton, Kaukauna, Seymour, Hortonville and Shiocton keep the arrest records in Outagamie County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
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.
Together, the six agencies in Outagamie County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,882 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Outagamie County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Outagamie County in 2025
The six agencies in Outagamie County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 289 violent and 1,887 property crimes to the FBI that year; the five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,160 crimes in 2025 against 2,809 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Outagamie County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Outagamie County
Registered sex offenders living in Outagamie County are listed on the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry, run by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections at wistaysafe.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Outagamie County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law a county office must answer a request 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. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at outagamie.gov/Our-County/Sheriffs-Office/Open-Records-Request (page title: Open Records Request | Outagamie County, Wisconsin).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal 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.
Can I search Outagamie County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at wicourts.gov (page title: Wisconsin Court System | Search). Statewide, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access is the free statewide case search of every circuit court.
How do I get my own Wisconsin criminal history?
Through the same record check, run on yourself.
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.