Pierce County Jail Mugshots
Pierce County's public jail roster is a daily PDF list. The roster PDFs inspected for June 2026 did not display mugshots, thumbnails, profile photos, or a recent-bookings gallery. The official Pierce County Sheriff's Office page and jail information PDF also did not identify a separate public mugshot gallery. The public roster showed name, date of birth, address, custody status, release date and time when applicable, booking date and time, arresting agency, charges, status, bail, housed-at line, and total inmates.
That makes Pierce County different from counties that publish photo profile pages. A person can be booked, photographed, fingerprinted, and listed in jail records without having a photo posted on the public roster. The Day Report Center source confirms local photo and fingerprint processing for some initial-appearance bookings even when the person was not taken into jail custody. Sheriff Chad Koranda's office and Jail Administrator Ali Verges manage the jail operation, but a public photo release is still a records question.
What is and is not public: The inspected Pierce County roster PDFs are public text records. They did not publish mugshots, and no official county photo gallery was verified.
Pierce County Booking Photo Search
The first official step is still the Pierce County Jail Roster, because it confirms whether the person was recently listed in county custody. The roster is not a name-search database, and it does not show photos, but it can identify the booking date, agency, charge text, custody status, and release line needed for a precise records request. For current custody that is not yet on the PDF, call the jail at 715-273-1124 and select option 9.
- Open the Pierce County Jail Roster page and choose the most relevant daily PDF.
- Use the PDF find tool to search by last name, agency, charge, or status.
- Record the booking date, arresting agency, custody status, and any charge or case clues.
- If a booking photo is needed, submit a sheriff open-records request for the booking photograph or mugshot.
- If the arrest led to court charges, use WCCA to find the case number and formal charge details.
- For a person transferred after sentencing, check the Wisconsin DOC locator instead of the county roster.
This keeps the search in official channels. The Pierce County Sheriff WI app exists for public-safety communication, crime reports, tips, and news, but the reviewed App Store and Google Play listings did not verify an inmate roster, warrant search, mugshot gallery, or booking-photo feature inside the app.
Pierce County Roster Without Photos
A Pierce County roster entry should be treated as a custody snapshot rather than a photo profile. The inspected Saturday roster had enough detail to identify a local booking or release event, but it did not include the image field many users expect from a mugshot search. For formal charge status, hearing dates, and case disposition, use Pierce County court records after jail arrest rather than the jail roster alone.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking photo | Not shown in the inspected Pierce County public roster PDFs. |
| Name and DOB | Identity fields used to distinguish people with similar names. |
| Address | Address as displayed in the roster, including entries that may say homeless. |
| Booking date and time | The jail intake time tied to the roster entry. |
| Arresting agency | The agency tied to a charge or hold, such as the sheriff, River Falls PD, or DOC. |
| Charges and status | Booking charge text, warrant or hold language, court-pending status, or sentenced status. |
| Bail | A listed amount that must be read with hold status before assuming release eligibility. |
| Custody status | IN CUSTODY or RELEASED, with release date and time when present. |
For custody workflow details and the full daily roster search process, use the Pierce County inmate records page.
Pierce County Mugshot Records Law
Wisconsin law favors access to public records, but it does not require every county to publish booking photos online. For Pierce County jail mugshots, the important distinction is between a record that may exist in a law-enforcement file and a photo that appears on the public roster. The inspected Pierce County roster did not publish photos, while Wisconsin records statutes still provide a path to request records from the proper custodian.
Key statutes:
Wis. Stat. 19.31 states Wisconsin's broad public-records access policy, subject to legal limits.
Wis. Stat. 19.35 governs inspection, copying, and allowed records fees.
Wis. Stat. 165.83(2)(a)3. addresses law-enforcement identification data, including photographs and fingerprints.
Wisconsin's access rules still allow redactions and withholding when a legal exemption or public-interest balancing test applies. Juvenile matters, active investigations, protected victim information, sealed records, and other restricted data can affect what is released. Ask for the specific booking photograph and related booking sheet rather than a broad demand for all jail records.
Request Pierce County Booking Photos
When no Pierce County booking photo appears online, the official route is a request to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office records custodian through the sheriff open-records procedure. The request should say exactly what is needed: booking photograph or mugshot for the named person, the arrest or booking date, Pierce County Jail or Pierce County Sheriff's Office as the agency if known, and any WCCA case number or incident number. Include enough contact information for the office to respond.
Fees, identification requirements, redactions, and turnaround should be confirmed with the sheriff records office because the researched open-records PDF was official but not text-extractable in the local tooling. The Law Enforcement Center address used by the sheriff and jail is 555 West Overlook Drive, Ellsworth, WI 54011. For current custody before filing a request, use jail phone option 9, which is documented in the Pierce County Jail information PDF.
| Request Item | Why It Helps |
|---|---|
| Full name | Identifies the person in jail, sheriff, and court records. |
| Date of birth if known | Helps separate people with similar names. |
| Arrest or booking date | Points staff to the correct jail intake event. |
| Requested record type | State booking photograph, booking sheet, roster entry, or incident report. |
| Case or incident number | Connects the request to a court filing or law-enforcement report when known. |
How Long Mugshots Stay Public
No verified Pierce County public mugshot gallery was found, so there is no county-published roster photo removal window to report. The jail roster itself makes the last seven daily reports available. A person can appear in one or more PDF reports during the seven-day cycle, including released entries when the daily report still covers that custody period. The public record may then require a sheriff records request rather than a roster click.
Do not treat a seven-day roster limit as a destruction rule. It only describes how long the daily PDFs are available on the roster page. Booking files, photos, incident reports, and court records may follow separate retention, access, and redaction rules. If a photo is needed for a legal, journalistic, family, or identification reason, the records request should ask whether the image is retained and releasable under Wisconsin law.
Note: Online publication is not the same as record existence. Pierce County can have a booking image without posting it in a public roster PDF.
DOC Photos After Sentencing
Wisconsin DOC records are separate from Pierce County jail mugshots. A person sentenced to state prison may later appear in the Wisconsin DOC Offender Locator, which can show DOC custody or supervision details and may display a photo depending on the public record. That image is a DOC prison or supervision photo, not the original Pierce County booking photograph.
DOC's own guidance says county and city jails are administered separately from state prison custody. If a person is newly arrested in Pierce County, the county roster and jail phone are the right starting points. If the person has been sentenced and transferred, DOC becomes the better source. VINELink can help with custody-status notifications when available, but it is not a mugshot database.
Pierce County Photo Alternatives
Some users looking for Pierce County jail mugshots actually need the charge outcome, not the photo. Wisconsin Circuit Court Access can confirm whether the arrest led to formal charges, hearing dates, bond conditions, amended charges, dismissals, judgments, or sentences. The Wisconsin DOJ WORCS system is a paid adult criminal-history option for formal state criminal-history requests, but it is not a jail roster or a booking-photo gallery.
The Wisconsin Online Record Check System is useful when the question is broader criminal history rather than local custody or a Pierce County booking image.
Use WORCS for criminal-history records, WCCA for court case details, and the sheriff records process for local booking-photo requests.
Pierce County Mugshot Removal
Because the inspected Pierce County roster does not publish mugshots, the main local issue is not removal from a county photo gallery. It is whether a retained booking image can be released, redacted, corrected, or affected by a later court outcome. Wisconsin expungement under Wis. Stat. 973.015 may apply to certain qualifying convictions when ordered by the court after successful sentence completion, but it does not automatically erase every law-enforcement record or every third-party copy.
If charges were dismissed, amended, expunged, or sealed, use the court record to identify the exact order and then ask the records custodian how that order affects jail records or booking-photo release. Do not pay or rely on third-party photo-publishing sites for Pierce County records. Official sources, court orders, sheriff records staff, and legal advice are the reliable paths for disputes or removal questions.
Federal and ICE Mugshots
Federal and immigration custody searches use different systems. The BOP inmate locator can find many federal inmates from 1982 to present, but it is not a local mugshot gallery. ICE ODLS searches immigration custody by A-number and country of birth or biographic information, but it also does not function as a Pierce County booking-photo source. No BOP or ICE detention facility was found physically inside Pierce County, Wisconsin.
If a local arrest becomes a federal case, the person may move through federal court, U.S. Marshals custody, and then BOP records if sentenced. Federal identifiers such as a register number, FBI number, or A-number are more useful than Pierce County roster fields at that stage. Keep the local booking photo request with the sheriff's office and the federal custody search with the federal locator that matches the case.