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.
Sauk County, Wisconsin, has about 66,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sauk County Sheriff's Office and five 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 Sauk 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: Sauk County public records, Wisconsin arrest records, Wisconsin inmate search and Wisconsin criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sauk County
The Sauk County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sauk County. It reported 1,062 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Sauk County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Baraboo, 13,096 residents: 177 arrests reported for 2025.
- Reedsburg, 10,314 residents: 345 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lake Delton, 3,466 residents: 264 arrests reported for 2023.
- Spring Green, 1,573 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2020.
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 Sauk County, so its arrests are not broken out for Sauk County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sauk 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.
- Sauk County Sheriff's Office: 1,062 for 2025, 1,100 for 2024, 948 for 2023, 831 for 2022, 793 for 2021 and 870 for 2020.
- Reedsburg: 345 for 2025, 428 for 2024, 509 for 2023, 405 for 2022, 429 for 2021 and 609 for 2020.
- Baraboo: 177 for 2025, 306 for 2022, 366 for 2021 and 865 for 2019; 2020, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Sauk Prairie: 120 for 2025, 94 for 2023, 51 for 2022, 49 for 2021, 144 for 2020 and 280 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Lake Delton: 264 for 2023, 210 for 2022, 313 for 2021, 392 for 2020 and 746 for 2019.
- Spring Green: 37 for 2020 and 11 for 2019.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,704 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,407 in 2025 against 1,528 in 2024, down 7.9 percent.
Through March 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 405 arrests, against 400 in the same months of 2025.
Spring Green and Lake Delton reported only part of 2025 (2 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sauk County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sauk 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 110 people, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 177 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Sauk County Sheriff's Office at co.sauk.wi.us/sheriffsoffice/daily-inmate-counts (page title: Daily Inmate Counts | Sauk County Wisconsin Official Website), phone (608) 356-4895, 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 Sauk County
Whether someone was arrested in Sauk County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Sauk County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us/clerkofcourts/ccap-circuit-court-system-access, phone (608) 355-3287); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.sauk.wi.us/districtattorney, phone 608-355-3280).
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 Sauk 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 Sauk County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (608) 356-4895.
- An arrest in Baraboo, Reedsburg, Lake Delton or Spring Green: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 608-355-3280, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Sauk County Circuit Court, through the court records page at co.sauk.wi.us, phone (608) 355-3287.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us (page title: Public Records Requests | Sauk County Wisconsin Official Website).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Sauk County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the 15 cities in Sauk County: Baraboo, Reedsburg, Lake Delton and Spring Green. Prairie du Sac, Sauk City, West Baraboo, Plain, North Freedom, Merrimac, Rock Springs, La Valle, Loganville, Ironton and Lime Ridge have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Sauk Prairie Police Department as a city agency in Sauk County; Sauk Prairie is 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 Sauk County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Sauk County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sauk County each year?
The Sauk County Sheriff's Office reported 1,062 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,704 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sauk County?
Ask the Sauk County Sheriff's Office at (608) 356-4895; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.sauk.wi.us.
Where are people arrested in Sauk County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sauk County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sauk 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 Sauk County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sauk 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.sauk.wi.us.
Is this the official Sauk 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.