A Wisconsin man who spent more than two weeks on the run earlier this year after a domestic disturbance has been arrested after going on the lam again.
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Supreme Court: Lifetime GPS monitoring not punishment (UPDATE)
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.
Read More »Lifetime GPS monitoring challenged in court
A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a Wisconsin law requiring lifetime GPS monitoring for some convicted sex offenders.
Read More »Milwaukee police to fire GPS trackers onto fleeing vehicles
New tracking technology acquired by Milwaukee police allows officers to keep tabs on criminal suspects without a dangerous high-speed chase.
Read More »Walker signs GPS anti-tracking bill
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to curb using GPS devices to track people.
Read More »Senate approves GPS anti-tracking bill
The state Senate has approved a bill designed to curb using GPS devices to track people.
Read More »Bill’s authors say GPS legislation would protect privacy
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.
Read More »Assembly passes bill barring GPS tracking
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.
Read More »Republican lawmaker brings back GPS tracking bill
A Republican lawmaker has reintroduced a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.
Read More »DOJ never launched GPS program (UPDATE)
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.
Read More »Church coalition extends calls for prison reform (UPDATE)
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.
Read More »ON THE DEFENSIVE: Technology a constant threat to clients’ privacy
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.
Read More »GPS tracking case has left unsettled questions
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.
Read More »Appeals court finds warrantless GPS tracking OK
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.
Read More »Assembly passes GPS tracking ban
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.
Read More »Assembly to take up GPS bill
The Wisconsin Assembly is set to take up a bill that would outlaw using GPS to secretly track someone.
Read More »Committee OKs GPS tracking ban
A legislative committee has approved a Republican bill that would outlaw secretly placing GPS devices on people's vehicles.
Read More »BENCH BLOG: A change in course at the high court
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.
Justice on Wheels travels to Sheboygan
The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are taking their cases on the road again.
Read More »Public transit agencies deride ‘patent trolls’
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.
Read More »Lawmakers want to test GPS restraining orders (UPDATE)
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.
Read More »Supreme Court treads carefully in patent ruling
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.
Read More »Walker’s budget would fund attorney raises
Gov. Scott Walker's budget would lay out more than $7 million for raises for assistant prosecutors and public defenders.
Read More »Walker proposes expanding DNA collection (UPDATE)
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.
Read More »State high court: Police OK to use GPS in burglary case
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.
Read More »State Supreme Court rejects appeal in GPS planting
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.
Read More »Lawyers, lawmakers ponder limits of Supreme Court’s GPS tracking ruling
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.
Read More »Judge declines to sanction prosecutors in GPS case
A federal judge is declining to sanction prosecutors for failing to disclose the use of GPS devices to track an Iowa drug suspect.
Read More »Walker signs bill allowing judges to order GPS tracking
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows judges to order GPS monitoring for people who violate restraining orders.
Read More »Senate approves GPS monitoring expansion
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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