Justice

Three Wisconsin Department of Corrections staff members are on administrative leave as the department investigates Morgan Geyser’s escape from a group home.

Community leaders in Milwaukee are raising concerns about the proposed use of facial recognition technology by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

A new state grant program will hand out $10 million for violence prevention work across Wisconsin.

Wisconsin’s state crime labs received fewer total cases in 2024 than in 2023, but took longer on average to turn around DNA casework and toxicology, according to a new report from the state Department of Justice. 

A police officer in Superior was shot early Sunday near Superior Middle School.

A settlement is pending in the state’s case against a Marinette manufacturer of firefighting foam over alleged violations of the state’s spills law for failing to report PFAS contamination.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will take up a case that challenges the practice of holding people in local Wisconsin jails at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Before the system was used, dispatchers would often have to place someone who called the non-emergency line on hold to take a call for someone who called 911 with an actual emergency.

After a mental health-related tragedy resulted in a Milwaukee woman’s death last month, Wisconsin mental health advocates are asking why there weren’t crisis interventions before the situation escalated.

Jury selection is set to start on Dec. 11. Thirty-four potential jurors have already been struck and there are around 90 potential jurors remaining.