Starting Tuesday, and likely continuing into June, the Joint Finance Committee will take a series of votes to build its own two-year spending plan which will then go to the Senate and Assembly for approval.
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Wisconsin Assembly hearing set on panel’s first police bills
Wisconsin lawmakers on Thursday were set to consider the first bills based on recommendations from a racial disparities task force that the Assembly's top Republican put together last year following George Floyd's death and a rash of police shootings across the country.
Read More »Wisconsin Republicans reject funding to fight homelessness
Wisconsin Republicans voted Thursday to reject more than $70 million in funding to combat homelessness in the state, a move that Democrats called a missed opportunity to address a problem that worsened due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read More »Republicans to scrap Evers’ priorities, start writing budget (UPDATE)
Republicans who head the Legislature’s budget committee told Wisconsin’s business leaders on Wednesday that they are optimistic a tax cut will be a part of the next two-year spending plan, although they said details on what type and how much were still being discussed.
Read More »Evers, Democrats push bills to reduce prison population
Gov. Tony Evers and his fellow Democratic lawmakers have introduced a series of proposals designed to reduce overcrowded prisons, but without support from Republican leaders they are unlikely to gain momentum in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
Read More »Wisconsin lawmakers resurrect expungement bill
A group of lawmakers is trying again to pass legislation that would allow convicts to ask judges to expunge their criminal records.
Read More »Lawmakers OK proposal to make PTSD mitigation factor in sentencing
An assembly panel has approved a bill that would make post-traumatic-stress disorder a mitigating factor judges can consider in sentencing criminals.
Read More »Truth-in-sentencing opponents waiting for change
Those in Wisconsin’s legal community who oppose truth-in-sentencing understand their chances for overturning, or at least toning down, the law depend on how well they play the long game.
Read More »Committee recommends allowing violent offenders in treatment courts
A committee tasked with making recommendations on how to improve Wisconsin's treatment courts system voted Wednesday that programs should allow certain violent offenders to participate.
Read More »Recommendations for treatment courts include money for evaluation
A legislative study committee voted Wednesday to recommend several changes to Wisconsin’s treatment courts system.
Read More »More money, standardized system under consideration for state’s treatment courts
A legislative committee tasked with looking at the Wisconsin’s treatment and alternative courts is ready to start considering recommendations for the Legislature.
Read More »Assembly passes bill to raise interest rate on small claims judgments
The Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would up the interest rate on judgments in small claims cases to 12 percent.
Read More »Presentence investigation bill headed for Assembly vote
A bill that would allow crime victims to view portions of defendant’s presentence investigation reports was passed by the Assembly’s judiciary committee Tuesday morning.
Read More »COURT GESTURES BLOG: Other CCAP-related bills don’t stand a chance
With the latest bill addressing the removal of information from CCAP popping up this week, I thought it was worth reviewing a few of the other bills introduced in the past few months that sought to address the exact same problem, yet have gone nowhere.
Read More »GOP senator confident in latest proposal to limit CCAP
A proposal that would remove information from the state’s online courts website about cases in which a person was acquitted is poised to receive heavy Republican support in the coming weeks.
Read More »Assembly committee passes heroin prosecution bill (UPDATE)
An Assembly bill that gives individuals who call 911 to report a heroin overdose immunity from prosecution for certain crimes unanimously passed out of committee Thursday.
Read More »Expunction changes up for debate
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to take up expunction in certain criminal cases – a topic at least one legislator has sought to address in the current session.
Read More »Legislator behind failed CCAP proposal focuses on expunction
A Milwaukee state representative who earlier this year tried to advance a bill that would create a bifurcated online court records system now plans to focus on expunction instead.
Read More »Major changes planned for CCAP proposal, focus may shift to expunction
A Milwaukee legislator who introduced legislation to create a bifurcated online system to prevent the misuse of state court records said he is reconsidering the bill and working on major changes.
Read More »Editorial: Restricting access to records is wrong choice
State Rep. Evan Goyke is acting on his assumption that Wisconsin residents are a simple bunch so swayed by gossip that they cannot be trusted with basic court records.
Read More »Dems push for data on drunken driving bills
Democrats challenged a pair of Republican lawmakers Thursday to prove measures for tougher drunken driving penalties would actually make a difference, demanding to see statistics and data that would justify the bills' costs.
Read More »Battle lines redrawn as legislators renew push for CCAP restrictions
The latest attempt to help those who are unfairly persecuted because of a wrongful arrest is drawing the ire of First Amendment advocates who say the measure would deny much of the public easy access to records.
Read More »Domestic violence bills advance out of panels (UPDATE)
Two bills aimed at strengthening the state's domestic abuse laws received approval Thursday from legislative committees, including one that would require officers responding to domestic violence calls to explain themselves if they failed to make an arrest.
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