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A top Wisconsin Department of Justice administrator filed a federal complaint alleging that she's being underpaid and harassed at work because she's a Black woman.
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Read More »Kaul switches DOJ stance in 2 environmental lawsuits
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has changed the state Department of Justice stance to support an environmental advocacy group in lawsuits dealing with dairy farm expansion and high-capacity wells.
Read More »DOJ releases school threat assessment protocols
The state Department of Justice is releasing new guides to help schools identify potential threats.
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Read More »DOJ spent $1,000 to send attorney to ADF conference
Wisconsin taxpayers paid about $1,000 to send one of Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's top lawyers to a Christian legal advocacy group's West Coast conference last summer even though Schimel himself considered his own appearance there a political or personal event.
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Read More »AG: Every school that applies for safety grants should get some money (UPDATE)
The Wisconsin Department of Justice began accepting applications on Tuesday for $100 million in new school-safety grants.
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Read More »Sergeant charged with felony for releasing records
The state Department of Justice is prosecuting a Taylor County sheriff's detective for releasing records of two unsolved murders to producers of a national television show.
Read More »DOJ contracts with 2 more labs to test kits
The state Department of Justice is contracting with two more private labs to analyze untested sexual assault kits.
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Read More »Wisconsin to fund jail pilot projects to prevent recidivism
The Wisconsin Department of Justice will give four counties $320,000 to develop a model that helps people transition back to their community once they're released from jail.
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Read More »DOJ agent resigned after being accused of exposing himself
A state Justice Department agent resigned after he allegedly exposed his genitals at the agency's headquarters, a restaurant and a party, records show.
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Read More »Official: Lawsuit could ‘imperil’ Foxconn, other projects
The Wisconsin Department of Justice's solicitor general says a lawsuit challenging an economic development project could "imperil" the $10 billion Foxconn complex and other ventures in the state.
Read More »View from around the state: Schimel acts as if Walker campaign were his client
Attorney General Brad Schimel is not the lawyer for Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign. But, in a stunning breach of faith that displays his extreme partisanship, Schimel is acting as if the Walker campaign were his client.
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Read More »Liberal group: Delayed DOJ blood tests led to fatal crash
Prosecutors were waiting for the state crime lab to complete blood tests on a repeat drunken driver this summer when he struck and killed a man changing a flat tire along the interstate.
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Read More »Milwaukee County in compliance with immigration law
The U.S. Department of Justice says Milwaukee County is in compliance with immigration law and won't lose federal grants.
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Read More »DOJ sets up website to track sex assault kit tests
The state Department of Justice has set up a public website that tracks the agency's efforts to test hundreds of untested sexual assault evidence kits.
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Read More »Officers who shot man who killed 4 will not face charges
Police officers who shot and killed a northern Wisconsin man after he killed four people in March did not commit any crime, the Wisconsin Department of Justice concluded after completing its investigation and making the report public Tuesday.
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Read More »DOJ asks 7th Circuit to continue cocaine mom law stay
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to continue to apply a law that allows the state to detain pregnant women suspected of drug use after a judge struck it down.
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Read More »DOJ sues property company
The state Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit alleging a South Carolina company tricked Wisconsin residents into renting uninhabitable properties.
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Read More »UW considers settling with UW-Oshkosh foundation creditors
The state of Wisconsin is considering a settlement with the creditors of financially-troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, according to University of Wisconsin System officials.
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Read More »DOJ: 63 of 6,000 sexual assault kits tested so far
Only about 60 of 6,000 untested sexual assault evidence kits sitting on Wisconsin shelves have been analyzed so far, state Department of Justice officials said Monday.
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Read More »Appeals court rules against former DOJ agent (UPDATE)
A former Wisconsin Department of Justice agent fired after he brought a whistleblower complaint against his boss did not notify the proper people when he made his allegation, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »Schimel: Undercover campaign videos reveal no crime
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at Donald Trump presidential campaign rallies show no evidence that laws were broken.
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Read More »Prosecutor: Deputy was justified in shooting
A prosecutor says a Lincoln County deputy who shot and killed a man during a traffic stop was justified in his actions.
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Read More »DirecTV settles with Wisconsin viewers over billing issues
DirecTV customers in Wisconsin will soon be seeing a $4.25 refund.
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Read More »High court to hear dispute between judge, crime victims board
Can a government agency that reviews crime-victim complaints sanction a judge over the timing of a sentencing in a sex assault case?
Tagged with: DOJ Eau Claire County Circuit Court Gabler v. Crime Victims Rights Board James Duvall Patrick Fiedler State v. Gary Lemberger State v. Keimonte Wilson Timothy Barber Wisconsin Supreme Court
Read More »Attorney general proposes pay raise for prosecutors (UPDATE)
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants to give a raise to every prosecutor in the state in each of the next two years.
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Read More »State says redistricting should wait until after appeal
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says the state Legislature should not go about the task of redrawing legislative boundaries until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case.
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Read More »Grand jury likely to investigate John Doe leak
The Wisconsin Department of Justice will likely convene a grand jury to investigate a leak of evidence collected during a secret investigation into whether Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign circumvented state campaign finance law, Attorney General Brad Schimel said Thursday.
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Read More »Deputy AG to leave state’s Justice Department
Deputy Attorney General Andy Cook plans to leave the state Department of Justice at the end of the week.
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Read More »Judge refuses to order hand recount in Wisconsin (UPDATE)
A Wisconsin judge refused on Tuesday to order local election workers to conduct the state's upcoming presidential recount completely by hand, finding that nothing suggests the state's electronic tabulating machines have been hacked.
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Read More »Milwaukee judge’s appointment of special master raises questions for justices
The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared concerned that Milwaukee County judge may have granted too much power to a special master the judge appointed to handle a business dispute between two parties.
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