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The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted earlier this month to limit the length of time eviction records can be kept online from 20 years to two years in cases without a money judgment, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service reports.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted earlier this month to limit the length of time eviction records can be kept online.
If you’re looking for an apartment, lawyers representing Milwaukee’s poorest say an eviction record can be like a scarlet letter.
WUWM Don Tolbert, a paralegal with Legal Action of Wisconsin, serves clients at the Eviction Defense Project in 2019. Eviction rates have slowed during the pandemic because of eviction moratoriums and federal rent assistance programs. A federal judge in Washington D.C. struck down a national eviction moratorium last week, put in place by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention through June 30. The U.S. Department of Justice has appealed that ruling, and the moratorium is staying in place for now. The federal appeals court has stayed the trial court's order pending appeal. Housing adv...
Legal Action urges Wisconsin Supreme Court to ensure eviction ban lasts until June 30 Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Angela Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Melissa Muller, left, gallery director for the "Evicted" exhibit, and Sean Barbe, designer, set up the show June 11, 2019, at Mobile Design Box, 753 N. 27th St. Milwaukee will be the first stop on the exhibit’s national tour, a visualization of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about how the effects of eviction can destabilize entire communities. The exhibit will be on view through Sept. 3...