Unprecedented state-wide investigation could uncover many crimes, lead to legal reforms. By Bruce Murphy - May 10th, 2021 05:29 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Josh Kaul. File photo by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Peter Isely has been an activist working on the issue of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy since 1992, and has never seen anything like the statewide investigation that Wisconsin Attorney General
“There’s never been anything remotely like an independent public investigation of all this,” says Isely, a founding member of the the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and now Program Director for Nate’s Mission, a new group involved with the issue. “Finally the victims of abuse feel the state justice department is on their side.”
The Wisconsin Attorney General argued against purges of voters from the rolls. //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Josh Kaul. File photo by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Wisconsin Attorney General
Josh Kaul was invited to testify before the Committee on House Administration on voting rights on Thursday on the topic of Wisconsin’s experience with voter list purges.
“General Kaul,” as he was identified throughout the hearing, told the elections subcommittee about Wisconsin’s experiences with the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (“ERIC”) movers lists, which were used to update voter registrations in 2017 and 2019. The first time Wisconsin relied on ERIC data, the state purged 340,000 voters. The purge of so-called movers caused problems during the 2018 spring primary election when roughly 9,000 people showed up to vote who had not in fact moved, but had been pu
Investigating all five Catholic dioceses in state. Archdiocesan official criticizes effort. By Henry Redman - Apr 28th, 2021 12:03 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
Josh Kaul. File photo by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Wisconsin is opening a statewide review of historical and recent sexual abuse by members of the clergy and other faith leaders, Attorney General
Josh Kaul announced at a news conference Tuesday.
The independent review focused on the Catholic Church but looking for instances of abuse in other faiths and institutions will collect reports of sexual abuse from survivors, connect them with resources and, in cases in which the statute of limitations has not yet expired, prosecute the perpetrators, Kaul said. The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) is working with the district attorneys of the five Wisconsin counties in which Catholi
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