Devin Blake

1 week ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Devin Blake

Reading Time: 3 minutes As Wisconsin’s prison population climbs toward pre-pandemic levels, Senate Bill 153 seeks to expand alternatives to incarceration. Wisconsin’s Treatment Alternatives and Diversion program was established in 2005 to provide counties with funding to create programs to divert adults with nonviolent criminal charges into community-based treatment for substance abuse.

1 week ago | milwaukeenns.org | Devin Blake

As Wisconsin’s prison population climbs toward pre-pandemic levels, Senate Bill 153 seeks to expand alternatives to incarceration. Wisconsin’s Treatment Alternatives and Diversion program was established in 2005 to provide counties with funding to create programs to divert adults with nonviolent criminal charges into community-based treatment for substance abuse. Senate Bill 153 would formally expand the scope of these programs to explicitly include individuals with mental health issues.

1 week ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Devin Blake

Reading Time: 3 minutes As the Milwaukee Police Department moves to expand its use of facial recognition technology, a June report from the federal government finds this technology continues to disproportionately misidentify people of color. Elected officials and civil rights groups have been raising this concern as a clear reason why MPD’s plan should be paused or rejected entirely.  MPD says there are ways to address this limitation.

1 week ago | milwaukeenns.org | Devin Blake

As the Milwaukee Police Department moves to expand its use of facial recognition technology, a June report from the federal government finds this technology continues to disproportionately misidentify people of color. Elected officials and civil rights groups have been raising this concern as a clear reason why MPD’s plan should be paused or rejected entirely.  MPD says there are ways to address this limitation.

2 weeks ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Devin Blake

Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Milwaukee County Courthouse complex, many county officials want residents to know that courthouse services remain available regardless of citizenship status. Israel Ramón, the Milwaukee County register of deeds, sees access to his office at the courthouse as a fundamental right of every resident in the county. “I work for 950,000 people,” Ramón said.