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 24, 2026 and September 27, 2026.
Lincoln County, Wyoming, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Wyoming the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of District Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Lincoln 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, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Lincoln County public records, Lincoln County arrest records, Lincoln County warrants, Lincoln County inmate search, Lincoln County court records, Wyoming arrest records and Wyoming inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Lincoln County
A criminal case from Lincoln County is filed in the District Court for Lincoln County or the Circuit Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $50,000, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of District Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Lincoln County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at lincolncountywy.gov/government/clerk_of_district_court/index.php (page title: Lincoln County, Wyoming), phone (307)877-9056, 925 Sage Avenue, Kemmerer, WY 83101, Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Wyoming has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Wyoming Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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 file in the District Court for Lincoln County is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at wyomingdci.wyo.gov/criminal-justice-information-services-cjis/crimi....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Lincoln County
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Kemmerer, Afton, Diamondville, Cokeville and La Barge keep the arrest records in Lincoln 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.
Together, the five agencies in Lincoln County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,296 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 Lincoln County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Lincoln County in 2025
The four agencies in Lincoln County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11 violent and 29 property crimes to the FBI that year; the two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 23 crimes in 2025 against 51 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 Lincoln County public records guide.
The County Attorney for Lincoln County
The County Attorney decides which arrests in Lincoln County become charges and files them in the District Court for Lincoln County or the Circuit Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at lincolncountywy.gov/government/attorney/index.php (page title: Lincoln County, Wyoming), phone (307)877-9056, 925 Sage Avenue, Kemmerer, WY 83101, Mon 8AM-5PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Lincoln County
Registered sex offenders living in Lincoln County are listed on the Wyoming Sex Offender Registry, run by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation at wyomingdci.wyo.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff registers them.
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 Lincoln 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 Wyoming Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 30 days at most, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Lincoln County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Lincoln 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.
Can I search Lincoln County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at lincolncountywy.gov (page title: Lincoln County, Wyoming).
How do I get my own Wyoming criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Who prosecutes crimes in Lincoln County?
The County Attorney, reached at (307)877-9056, which files its cases in the District Court for Lincoln County or the Circuit Court.
Is this the official Lincoln 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.