Durand Criminal History Checks
A Durand criminal record check works best as a short chain, not one broad request. City police hold the incident report and camera media. Pepin County Jail or Wisconsin VINE confirms current county custody. The Pepin County Clerk of Circuit Court holds filed charges, docket events, judgments, and sentences. Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, commonly called WCCA or CCAP, is the public court index.
- Identify whether Durand Police handled the event and note its date, place, incident type, and any report number.
- Use Durand's records form for a Durand police report, body-camera file, squad-camera file, or the entire Durand case record.
- Call Pepin County Jail or use VINE if current booking or custody is the main question.
- Search WCCA with Pepin County selected, then ask the clerk for any public document that WCCA cannot display.
- Use Wisconsin DOJ's WORCS only when a Wisconsin CIB name-based response is needed as a separate product.
The City of Durand source provides the city-level starting point for public services.
That Durand city source sets the right altitude before a Durand search moves to Pepin County or Wisconsin systems.
Durand Police Video Record Requests
Durand's police records form is the sole advertised online route for police audio and video. Under 2023 Wisconsin Act 253, Durand says the form is mandatory for every audiovisual request. It asks whether the requester is directly involved, represents that person, or has court authorization; whether at least ten Durand Police requests were made that year; and whether the request is free from a financial-gain purpose.
The Durand form then gathers contact and incident facts, a Durand incident type, and one record choice. Those choices matter:
| Durand Record Choice | What the Request Targets | Key Point |
|---|---|---|
| Entire Case Report | The broader releasable police case file | May include more than an officer narrative |
| Officer Body Camera Only | Body-worn video for the described incident | Uses the mandatory audiovisual route |
| Officer Squad Camera Only | Squad-car video for the event | Identify date, place, and incident closely |
| Officer Report Only | The officer's written report | Does not request all related media |
The official records form source shows the request controls that distinguish written Durand records from camera files.
The visible choices let a requester avoid asking for far more Durand material than the actual question requires.
Records at the Durand Police Department
The Durand Police Department operates at 104 East Main Street, P.O. Box 202, Durand, WI 54736. The business line is 715-672-5948. Chief Stan Ridgeway can be reached at sridgeway@durandwi.gov for form help when a delivery email is invalid. County dispatch handles nonemergency response at 715-672-5944. The business line and dispatch line answer different needs.
Durand Police Department
104 East Main Street
P.O. Box 202
Durand, WI 54736
715-672-5948
Nonemergency dispatch: 715-672-5944
Durand estimates about 30 minutes of redaction work for each ten minutes of footage. The city may assess a fee and require prepayment before it begins. Required form acknowledgments cover possible cost, redaction, delay or denial, and truthfulness. A false statement about intended use can lead to a $10,000 forfeiture for each violation. Police records are delivered by email.
The department source provides the official face of Durand police services and records access.
It anchors Durand report requests at the Durand department rather than at the county court or jail desk.
Durand Record Prepayment and Redaction
When Durand sends a cost notice, compare it with the exact media chosen. A request for an officer report may require less review than a long body-camera or squad-camera file. If the amount or scope is unclear, use the published police contact and ask which incident, camera source, and time span the estimate covers before paying.
A Durand fee packet lists general copies at $0.25 per page and Durand staff time at $22.50 per hour. Those broad figures should not be substituted for the Act 253 audiovisual calculation. Durand video review can involve victim details, medical scenes, protected witnesses, active investigative facts, or safety issues that must be redacted. Durand may delay, redact, or deny part of the response under the applicable law.
Note: A precise Durand request can reduce needless review, but it cannot remove a lawful redaction or guarantee immediate release.
Booking and Arrest Records in Durand
Durand publishes no city jail or live police blotter. When Durand officers make an arrest, custody moves to a suitable county facility. Start with Pepin County Jail at 715-672-5945 or Wisconsin VINE for current county custody and status alerts. A release, transfer, or placement in another county can make a person disappear from one custody channel without erasing the earlier arrest.
The Durand arrest itself creates separate files. Durand Police documents the Durand incident, probable cause, officer, and recommended charges. Jail intake adds admission, detention reason, arresting agency, and release facts. Fingerprints can create a Durand arrest cycle at Wisconsin DOJ's Crime Information Bureau. If the district attorney files a complaint, the clerk opens a Pepin County circuit case. Those Durand records may update at different times.
For a fuller countywide explanation, the Pepin County arrest search separates current custody, police reports, and court outcomes.
Three Stops for Durand Arrest Records
A common Durand search mistake is asking one office for the whole trail. The police department can release the agency report but does not control the court judgment. Jail staff can confirm custody but do not decide the final charge. The clerk records filed counts and outcomes but does not own the original body-camera file.
Durand arrest trail: Durand Police report › Pepin County Jail or VINE custody › Pepin County Circuit Court case.
Use a Durand report number with Durand Police, a full name and current Durand custody question with the jail or VINE, and a Durand case number with the clerk. If the Durand arrest is recent, a court case may not appear yet because the district attorney has not filed or court staff have not completed the first public entry. A Durand arrest is not proof of guilt.
The Durand Municipal Court File
Durand has no municipal court in the current Wisconsin judiciary directory. That means a reader should not waste time looking for a separate Durand municipal docket or clerk window. Ordinance and criminal matters routed to court use Pepin County Circuit Court and WCCA according to their legal classification. The circuit court hears state felony and misdemeanor cases and other matters within its jurisdiction.
| Court Name | No Durand municipal court; use Pepin County Circuit Court |
|---|---|
| Case Types | State felony, misdemeanor, criminal traffic, and applicable ordinance or forfeiture matters in circuit court |
| Lookup Channel | WCCA with Pepin County selected, plus the circuit clerk for the official file |
| Docket Contents | Case number, counts, statutes, pleas, hearings, docket events, disposition, sentence, and public financial entries |
| Copies | Ask the clerk for the exact complaint, judgment, order, or other public docket item and request a cost quote |
WCCA is a Durand finding aid. It does not offer public images of every Durand complaint, motion, order, or judgment. Call the Pepin County Clerk of Circuit Court at 715-672-8861 when the Durand docket names a document that must be obtained from the official file.
Durand Charge Records After Referral
The Pepin County District Attorney reviews Durand police referrals and decides which county charges to file. The DA's office is not at the Government Center. It is at 315 2nd Avenue West in Durand, in the historic former public-library building where “Public Library” remains above the doors. That fact can prevent a visitor from taking prosecutor-held victim or witness business to the wrong counter.
The Pepin County District Attorney source confirms the prosecutor's role and location.
The office is part of the Durand justice path, but public filed case records still come from the circuit clerk.
An officer's recommended count can differ from the complaint. A complaint can later be amended, dismissed, read in, or resolved count by count. Searchers should compare the filed charge, plea, and final disposition rather than treating the first jail label as the outcome.
How Durand Records Reach the County
Durand sits at the center of Pepin County records work, but city and county custody remains distinct. Police keep the local incident and media file. The Pepin County District Attorney reviews a referral. The Pepin County Circuit Court creates the complaint, hearings, disposition, and sentence. Wisconsin DOJ CIB maintains a separate state criminal-history system that should receive qualifying fingerprint arrest data and later disposition information.
Record flow: Durand Police Department › Pepin County Circuit Court › Wisconsin Department of Justice Crime Information Bureau
For a recent event, start in Durand. For a filed case, use WCCA and the Pepin clerk. For a Wisconsin name-based CIB product, use WORCS separately. A CIB response is not the same as a court file, and neither one includes every police narrative or present jail fact.
Durand Criminal Records Hub History
Durand is the county seat and Pepin County's only incorporated city. The current Government Center and law-enforcement complex at 740 7th Avenue West houses the circuit clerk, sheriff, and jail. They share a street address but remain three record custodians. That concentration makes Durand the practical records hub for the county.
The earlier justice center tells a different story. Pepin County's old wooden courthouse is the last surviving wooden courthouse in Wisconsin. An adjacent iron-lattice jail also survives. The courthouse served until 1985 and the jail until 1984. This institutional history helps explain why older Durand references may point to landmarks that no longer serve as active records counters.
A September 2024 county request for proposals also explored a joint Buffalo-Pepin Justice Center against standalone options. It was a feasibility step, not proof that today's Durand counters moved. Use the current published addresses until an official agency announces a change.
Durand Police Record Changes
A November 2025 city packet included procurement of Axon Body 4 cameras dated December 1, 2025. More body-worn footage increases the value of Durand's specific media choices and the need to describe a narrow time and incident. The same material can also require significant privacy review.
Durand's June 2025 police report recorded 176 dispatched events. They included 55 traffic stops, 16 fire or EMS assists, 12 other-agency assists, 12 welfare checks, and 11 suspicious calls. It also listed nine 911 hang-ups, seven ordinance matters, six disorderly-conduct calls, five crashes, three fraud calls, and two drug cases. These are calls or events, not convictions and not necessarily unique crimes.
The county diversion-program source shows another local response outside a simple arrest-to-conviction path.
The program source illustrates why a Durand case trail may involve a county process as well as police and court files.
Durand Record Access Rules
Durand Police responds under Wisconsin Public Records Law. A clear request identifies the record, event date or range, place, report number when known, format, and a way to deliver it. Wisconsin generally does not require a requester to identify a purpose, subject to narrow exceptions, but Act 253 adds specific certifications to audiovisual requests.
Key statutes:
Wis. Stat. § 19.31 states Wisconsin's presumption of public access.
Wis. Stat. § 19.35 governs requests, prompt response, copies, and allowable direct costs.
Wis. Stat. § 19.36 recognizes legal limits on disclosure.
Wis. Stat. § 19.37 provides judicial enforcement and remedies.
Durand may redact victim details, protected identifiers, medical material, active-investigation facts, and safety-sensitive content. A denial should state its basis and review rights. Keep the written response. For a court judgment, ask the Pepin clerk rather than Durand Police; for current custody, use the jail or VINE.