This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person from jail, post bond, arrange visitation, pull official booking records, or obtain sheriff reports. Use the official Polk County or Wisconsin agency listed below for those actions.
Official Polk County Jail and Records Contacts
For current custody, booking, bond, or sheriff records questions, use the Polk County Sheriff's Office and Polk County Jail contact information published by the county.
Polk County Sheriff's Office / Polk County JailSheriff Brent A. Waak
Polk County Justice Center
1005 West Main Street, Suite 900
Balsam Lake, WI 54810
- Jail information line: 715-485-8370
- Sheriff records: 715-485-8350
- Main/dispatch phone: 715-485-8300
- Jail fax: 715-485-8375
- Records fax: 715-500-6516
- Public office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Use these starting points based on the type of information you need:
- For someone currently held at Polk County Jail, start with jail inmate records and then call the jail if the PDF roster is too new, missing, or unclear.
- For booking photographs and related records, review jail roster mugshots and use the sheriff case-report/open-records process when an official request is needed.
- For charges, hearings, and case events after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and WCCA/CCAP rather than the jail roster alone.
- For facility details, use the Polk County Jail page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced Wisconsin state prisoner or DOC-supervised person, search the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Offender Locator.
- For a sentenced federal prisoner or immigration detainee, use the federal BOP locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.