{"id":15775,"date":"2025-03-16T01:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15775"},"modified":"2025-03-16T02:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:57:33","slug":"assembly-republicans-move-public-safety-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15775","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Republicans Move Public Safety slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/assembly-republicans-move-public-safety-slate\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/assembly-republicans-move-public-safety-slate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/assembly-bill-96.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"assembly bill 96\" title=\"ROFR\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol continue to move through their to-do list. The latest was a slate of bills focusing on public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly on recently approved:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf K9 Riggs Act \u2013 Increases penalties for causing injury to law enforcement animals. The bill is named after Kenosha County Sheriff Department K9 Riggs, who was shot by a criminal. Riggs survived and is now in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Prosecution Reform \u2013 Requires approval from the court before prosecutors can dismiss serious charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Parental Notification \u2013 Ensures parents are promptly notified of sexual misconduct in school.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Criminal Case Database \u2013 Creates a new database of crimes in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Reckless Driving Crackdown \u2013 Allows for the impoundment of vehicles used in reckless driving offenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Parole Revocation \u2013 Revokes extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a new crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Child Trafficking Penalties \u2013 Imposes life imprisonment for the crime of trafficking multiple children and requires restitution be paid to the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Theft Crimes \u2013 Increases the penalties for certain retail theft crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf School Resource Officers \u2013 Ensures officers are put back into Milwaukee Schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCracking down on crime shouldn\u2019t be a partisan issue, but in Madison, it has increasingly become so,\u201d Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August said after Thursday\u2019s votes.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, authored the K9 Riggs Act, which was named after a Kenoha police dog who was shot and wounded by a suspect back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiggs\u2019s heroism united the community, galvanizing support for local law enforcement just a year after rioters in Kenosha protested against them,\u201d Nedweski added. \u201cThese dogs are not only invaluable members of the department; they are also family to their partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not every lawmaker was on board with the Republicans&#8217; public safety slate.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Rep. Ryan Clancy, D-Milwaukee, called the legislation &#8220;misleading and misguided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, the Wisconsin legislature was forced to spend our time and resources considering badly written, badly conceived bills that will harm people and waste public resources,&#8221; Clancy said in a statement. &#8220;It\u2019s wildly irresponsible to even consider increasing penalties and interfering with the very few tools of leniency we have with a prison system holding 5,000 more people than intended. But here we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The slate of legislation will head to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/assembly-republicans-move-public-safety-slate\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions\/15777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}