When overwhelmingly passed by Wisconsin voters in April, Marsy's Law was billed as a major step forward for crime victims' rights, but public records advocates are raising concerns that an over-interpretation of the constitutional amendment by some law enforcement agencies could curtail access to public information.
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Police in Kenosha shot and wounded a Black man, apparently in the back, after responding to a call about a domestic dispute, setting off a night of protests and unrest in which officers fired tear gas and demonstrators apparently hurled objects and set fire to parked cars.
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Read More »The Department of Justice has awarded nearly $1 million to two Wisconsin agencies to provide safe, stable housing and services to victims of human trafficking.
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Read More »The individual fatally shot by Oconto County sheriff's deputies last weekend was a 26-year-old Suring man, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers is turning over more than 10,000 pages in documents to Republican state Rep. John Nygren, and paying the lawmaker's $40,000 in legal fees, in order to settle an open-records lawsuit.
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Read More »The state attorney general doesn't plan to investigate possible criminal charges related to allegations of misconduct by 11 Sauk County department heads, employees and officials.
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A Minnesota man of Somali descent who was convicted of opening fire on other Somalis will get a new trial after a detective improperly testified that Somalis often lie to police, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Justice must expunge arrest records of people who aren't charged from its criminal database, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »Republican lawmakers and Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss settling three lawsuits after the defendants in those cases agreed to make the terms of the deals public.
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Read More »The U.S. Justice Department awarded Wisconsin about $10.5 million to combat the ongoing national opioid epidemic. The grants will help law-enforcement and public-health officials combat substance abuse and respond to overdoses.
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The new Wisconsin attorney general has used his first four months in office to shift the state Department of Justice to a more liberal footing, pleasing supporters by nullifying his Republican predecessor's attempts to kill federal health care reforms and limit environmental protections.
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Read More »Wisconsin Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul recently announced various appointments to the state Department of Justice.
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The Democratic attorney general hopeful Josh Kaul is releasing his first television ad, a 30-second spot blasting the incumbent, Brad Schimel, for taking too long with unanalyzed rape-testing kits.
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Read More »A Wisconsin Department of Justice task force on Wednesday released draft legislation designed to protect senior citizens and vulnerable adults from exploitation, including bills that would define new crimes, create penalty enhancers and speed up court proceedings for elderly victims and witnesses.
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Read More »A group is suing the state Department of Justice to obtain records related to the Affordable Care Act.
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Read More »Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is asking for more employees for the state’s crime labs.
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Read More »The state’s bar-application process is changing in response to a Madison lawyer’s complaint that it had not complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Read More »Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has asked everyone who works at the state Department of Justice to sign a nondisclosure agreement covering their time in office and even after they have left.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice began accepting applications on Tuesday for $100 million in new school-safety grants.
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When a judge neglects to warn non-citizen criminal defendants that entering a guilty or no-contest plea could result in deportation, should that omission be grounds for allowing the plea to be withdrawn?
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Read More »The state Department of Justice has started publishing a list of pending record requests online.
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Melissa Schaller always thought she would be a writer one day.
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Read More »State attorneys are asking a federal court to temporarily block a ruling that threw out as unconstitutional a host of Wisconsin election laws passed in recent years.
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After earning her law degree from Georgetown Law, Audrey Skwierawski was on her way toward practicing personal injury law.
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Wisconsin Department of Justice officials didn't violate whistleblower laws when they demoted a top Internet detective after she raised concerns about using state agents to protect the attorney general at a political convention, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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Looking back it was obvious. Amy Thornton was going to be a law librarian.
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Jocelyn Henning makes technology make sense.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Justice has received federal money to process sexual-assault evidence kits that have not yet been tested. State Attorney General Brad Schimel announced Thursday that the DOJ has received a $4 million grant for that purpose. The ...
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Representing Wisconsin in court cases that have captured national interest, Maria Lazar, assistant attorney general for the state Department of Justice, has had an undoubtedly eventful past four years. What comes next for the Brookfield native likely will be no less interesting: judge in Waukesha County Circuit Court, Branch 7.
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Assistant Attorney General Anne Bensky met Monica Burkert-Brist as opposing council on a sexual assault case.
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