A Wisconsin judge wasn't required to tell a man he would face a lifetime of GPS monitoring upon pleading guilty to child sex crimes because such monitoring is a public safety measure, not a form of punishment, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a Wisconsin law requiring lifetime GPS monitoring for some convicted sex offenders.

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New tracking technology acquired by Milwaukee police allows officers to keep tabs on criminal suspects without a dangerous high-speed chase.

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Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to curb using GPS devices to track people.

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The state Senate has approved a bill designed to curb using GPS devices to track people.

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The authors of a bill that would outlaw using GPS to track someone without their consent are telling a legislative committee the proposal would protect people's privacy.

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Husband or wives who are on the verge of getting a divorce and install a global-positioning device on a car to track a spouse’s movements would be guilty of a misdemeanor under a bill passed by the state Assembly on Thursday.

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A Republican lawmaker has reintroduced a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.

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Wisconsin Department of Justice officials have refused to launch a pilot program that would have paid for GPS tracking for people under restraining orders, saying the technical language enacting the plan didn't actually give judges the authority to order such monitoring.

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A coalition of church congregations demanding reforms within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections launched a second phase in its campaign Wednesday, calling on state officials to provide more services and options to inmates on parole.

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In a rare unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in Riley v. California that police must secure a warrant before searching a cellphone owned by a criminal suspect.

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Judges around the country are grappling with the ripple effects of a 2-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling on GPS tracking, reaching conflicting conclusions on the case's broader meaning and tackling unresolved questions that flare in a world where privacy and technology increasingly collide.

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A state appeals court says Wisconsin police were within their rights to place GPS trackers on cars before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they need warrants.

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The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.

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The Wisconsin Assembly is set to take up a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.

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A legislative committee has approved a Republican bill that would outlaw secretly placing GPS devices on people's vehicles.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has changed course after nearly 50 years by deciding that the touchstone of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is trespass to a property interest, not reasonable expectation of privacy.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are taking their cases on the road again.

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Public transit agencies nationwide are being targeted with questionable lawsuits by so-called patent trolls squeezing settlements out of financially strapped public entities unable to mount legal defenses against claims they are infringing on intellectual property protections, industry representatives said Thursday.

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Lawmakers plan to use counties as testing grounds before implementing statewide Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to use GPS devices to track people who have been put under a restraining order.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s surgically narrow ruling prohibiting a farmer from using seeds harvested from patented herbicide-resistant soybeans has left lawyers with more questions than answers about the extent of patent owners’ rights in other emerging, self-replicating technologies.

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Gov. Scott Walker's budget would lay out more than $7 million for raises for assistant prosecutors and public defenders.

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Gov. Scott Walker wants to spend $6 million on expanding DNA collection efforts to include anyone arrested on a felony charge and anyone convicted of a crime, a move the Republican has argued will help police solve more crimes.

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Police did not violate a Wisconsin man's constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure when they impounded his car and secretly installed a GPS device on it, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who argued police violated his constitutional rights by seizing his vehicle and planting a GPS device.

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Months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police’s use of GPS tracking devices on suspects’ cars constitutes a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, law enforcement officials, defense lawyers and lawmakers are trying to define the limits of the ruling.

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A federal judge is declining to sanction prosecutors for failing to disclose the use of GPS devices to track an Iowa drug suspect.

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Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows judges to order GPS monitoring for people who violate restraining orders.

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The state Senate has signed off on a bill that would allow judges to order GPS monitoring for people who violate restraining orders.

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The state Assembly has passed a bill that would allow judges to order GPS monitoring for people who violate restraining orders.

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