Oneida County Sheriff's Office, Wisconsin

06/04/2026

Why are we moving this conversation?

If your child is chatting/messaging on a social media or gaming application and is asked to move the conversation to an end to end encrypted application such as What’s App, Sessions, Telegram or Zangi, this should be concerning. This is predator behavior. The predator wants to isolate your child to communicate with them privately. Your child should block this person and stop communicating with them immediately.

06/02/2026

Please see the posting below for property found near Highway 17 and County Highway C in the Town of Pelican.

05/28/2026

S*xtortion: What is it? According to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) S*xtortion is a form of child sexual exploitation where children are threatened or blackmailed, often with the threat of sharing n**es or sexual images, by the perpetrators who demand money, additional sexual content, or sexual acts. This crime may happen when a child has shared an image with someone or when someone creates fake explicit content of the child.

Visit NCMEC’S NO ESCAPE ROOM https://noescaperoom.org/

05/21/2026

Are your n**e images online? This can be scary. Get help now!! Here’s how it works: if you are under 18 years old you can visit Takeitdown.NCMEC.org and click on “Get Started”. If you are over the age of 18 and someone is threatening to share you intimate images online, you’re not alone, please visit stopncii.org to get help.

05/18/2026

S*x Offender Release from Prison

05/14/2026

SCREEN FREE SLEEPING- Create screen free times and places within your home. These places and times could include meal time and bedtime (bedrooms). Studies show that many times dangerous online activities happen at night when children are left alone with their devices in their bedrooms. Anxiety, depression and academic problems have been increasing among youth, a major contributor to this mental health crisis is sleep deprivation partly driven by screens in the bedroom at night. One in four tweens fall asleep holding their phones, losing nearly an hour of sleep compared to when the phone is kept out of the bedroom. Another helpful hint, use the build in times (on devices) also for younger children to transition away when time is up. There are various applications available to parents that can assist with monitoring screen time.
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05/10/2026

May 10-16, 2026 is National Police Week, with Peace Officers Memorial day on Friday, May 15, 2026.

Whether in brown, blue, black, green, or any other color uniform that displays the badge of the peace officer, we are thankful for you! Law Enforcement is a challenging career with a great responsibility to the community. We are blessed to have incredible men and women in our community who choose to enter this profession and swear the oath to protect our citizens.

For those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, you will never be forgotten. For those who wear the badge daily, we are forever grateful.

05/07/2026

The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office will be posting Internet Safety Tips to help remind our community about the dangers presented on the internet and ways to avoid becoming a victim of fraud and sextortion. We are dedicated to informing the public about these dangers and combating the predators who use the internet every day to prey on innocent persons. If anyone has questions or wishes to receive more information about internet safety, please contact the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office.

*Please use each tip as a talking point to have a personal conversation with the young people in your lives. It will guarantee continued communications*

Today’s tip is simple but the most important:

COMMUNICATION - Please open up a line of communications with your children about internet safety. This is a very difficult topic but needs to be addressed so our youth understand there is an open door in case they become a victim. Break Down the Barriers and find a way to communicate with them. They must understand that nothing is that bad that cannot be dealt with. There is very helpful information online to assist with this. Simply perform keyword searches on your browser related to internet safety and you will be provided numerous websites that have valuable information. Specifically research S*xtortion, as this devastating crime continues to grow and too many of our youth have already taken their own lives because of it.

05/06/2026

05/05/2026