This website is a private reference guide, not a Lafayette County government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, approve visits, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official office below for custody, bond, jail records, and public-record requests.
Official Lafayette County Contacts
For current county-jail custody, start with the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office and Lafayette County Jail. The research file identifies Sheriff Reg Gill as sheriff and Sgt. Scott Donar as jail administrator.
Lafayette County Sheriff's Office / Lafayette County Jail138 W Catherine St
Darlington, WI 53530
Phone and jail information line: 608-776-4870
Hours: open 24 hours per day, seven days per week
Records email: records [at] lafcoso.org
For written sheriff records, use the Sheriff's Office open-records request process. Wisconsin public-record requests should be directed to the proper custodian and should reasonably describe the record sought, such as a booking sheet, incident report, accident report, witness statement, or photograph.
Choose the lookup path that matches the record or custody status you need:
- For someone believed to be in Lafayette County Jail, use jail inmate records and call 608-776-4870 because no official online roster was located.
- For booking photographs, use the jail roster mugshots page and the sheriff records request route.
- For charges, bond entries, hearings, and dispositions after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and Wisconsin Circuit Court Access.
- For facility details, use the Lafayette County Jail page listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Offender Locator at https://appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/welcome.
- For federal custody or immigration detention, use the BOP inmate locator, the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of Wisconsin, or ICE's Online Detainee Locator System.