{"id":3791,"date":"2023-06-25T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2023-06-25T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:22:45","slug":"josh-kauls-missing-crime-lab-report-where-is-his-2022-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kaul\u2019s Missing Crime Lab Report: Where Is His 2022 Report?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/josh-kaul-crime-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Where is Josh Kaul\u2019s 2022 crime lab report?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Josh Kaul crime lab report has gone missing. By his own standards, it\u2019s late.<\/p>\n

For the last two years, in 2022 and 2021, Kaul, Wisconsin\u2019s attorney general, has released the annual state crime lab report in April<\/strong>. In 2020, he released the 2019 report in May. As of June 25, 2023, Kaul\u2019s 2022 crime lab report was still nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

In early June, Kaul stated the 2022 crime lab report would not be available for \u201ca few months.\u201d But why? Was it because he was making a big budget push for more crime lab positions? Perhaps the 2022 crime lab statistics would have been helpful to legislators in determining that. Instead, news stories<\/a> on his push for more positions focused on 2021 numbers \u2013 in June 2023. At the same time, the media allowed Kaul to claim, without providing any evidence, that \u201ctrendlines\u201d at the crime lab \u201cappeared to show progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prove it. We wrote Kaul\u2019s office to ask the reason for the delay. We also asked for the 2022 crime lab report, via an open records request. Don\u2019t hold your breath. They never respond. In fact, Kaul, the state\u2019s top enforcer of open records laws (supposedly), has been sitting on one of our open records requests for more than a year, and the DOJ never ruled on a two-year-old open records complaint we filed against DA John Chisholm.<\/p>\n

Of course, the news out of the state crime lab hasn\u2019t been good for Kaul in the last two years, even though he got seven new positions in 2019-2021. \u201cAttorney General Josh Kaul\u2019s crime lab is taking in far fewer cases than his predecessor Brad Schimel even as violent crime skyrockets throughout the state, yet is taking longer to process them in key areas like DNA analysis and controlled substances, Kaul\u2019s own numbers show,\u201d we wrote of the 2021 report.<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2021, we wrote of the 2020 report<\/a>, \u201cAt a time of soaring crime rates, Kaul\u2019s crime lab is taking in far fewer cases (a trend that started BEFORE COVID-19), but it\u2019s also taking longer to get police and prosecutors key evidence they need to get criminals off the streets, a review of his own data shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaul has been complaining<\/a> about crime lab funding in television appearances even as he holds the numbers close to his vest.<\/p>\n

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2022: MIA<\/h2>\n

2021: Released on April 14, 2022<\/h2>\n

Kaul released the 2021 crime lab report on April 14, 2022, according to his own press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

2020: Released on April 15, 2021<\/h2>\n

Kaul released the 2020 crime lab report on April 15, 2021, according to a DOJ news release.<\/a><\/p>\n

2019: Released on May 20, 2020<\/h2>\n

Kaul released the 2019 crime lab report on May 20, 2022, a news release states.<\/a><\/p>\n

2018: Released on May 29, 2019<\/h2>\n

The DOJ\u2019s 2018 crime lab report was released on May 29, 2019, according to a DOJ news release.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaul has served as Wisconsin\u2019s AG since January 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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