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 24, 2026.
Fremont County, Wyoming, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Fremont 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Fremont County. 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: Fremont County public records, Wyoming arrest records, Wyoming inmate search and Wyoming criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Fremont County
The Fremont County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Fremont County. It reported 379 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists three cities in Fremont County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Riverton, 10,953 residents: 1,282 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lander, 7,451 residents: 605 arrests reported for 2020.
- Shoshoni, 500 residents: 1 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 Fremont 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.
- Riverton: 1,282 for 2025, 1,238 for 2023, 1,212 for 2022, 1,547 for 2021, 2,002 for 2020 and 2,290 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Shoshoni: 1 for 2025 and 9 for 2024.
- Lander: 605 for 2020 and 649 for 2019.
- Fremont County Sheriff's Office: 379 for 2020 and 625 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,283 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1 in 2025 against 9 in 2024.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 737 arrests, against 732 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fremont County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fremont 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 2023 the jail held about 160 people, down from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 188 beds, and it ran at 87 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Wyoming Department of Corrections lists its inmates at wdoc-loc.wyo.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Fremont County
For Fremont County the place to look is the case index of the District Court for Fremont County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at wyocomet.wyo.gov/repositories/2/resources/1192, phone (307) 777-7826).
Wyoming does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Fremont 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 Wyoming Public Records Act the agency must answer within 30 days at most, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Fremont County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Riverton, Lander or Shoshoni: 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 District Court for Fremont County, through the court records page at wyocomet.wyo.gov, phone (307) 777-7826.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fremontcountywy.org (page title: Welcome to Fremont County, WY).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Fremont County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Fremont County: Riverton, Lander and Shoshoni. Dubois, Hudson and Pavillion have 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 District Court for Fremont County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Fremont County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Riverton (10,953)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fremont County each year?
Riverton reported 1,282 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,283 between them.
Where are people arrested in Fremont County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fremont County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fremont County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Fremont County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wyoming Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Fremont County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fremont County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Wyoming Public Records Act the answer is due within 30 days at most; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fremontcountywy.org.
Is this the official Fremont 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.