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Incarceration after COVID: how the pandemic could permanently change jails and prisons
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred decarceration efforts once seen as unthinkable, but advocates want more action.
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Your Right to Know: Lawmakers seek to keep their misconduct secret
Staush Gruszynski, a former state Assembly representative from Green Bay, is the subject of an ongoing legal battle over records regarding his sexual harassment of a female staffer.
Your Right to Know: No private email accounts for public business
Shockingly, in Wisconsin it’s perfectly legal for government officials to use their personal emails to do government work. Even though a government entity may have no ability to access personal accounts and even though it’s ridiculously easy to use personal emails to hide conversations from the public, these practices are still allowed.
Opinion: Wisconsin regulators should reject Crawford County pig CAFO
A Steuben, Wisconsin resident writes that she is devastated that the Wisconsin DNR conditionally approved plans for Roth Feeder Pig to expand into a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO).
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WCIJ board elects new officers, recognizes retiring members for service
The Wisconsin Center of Investigative Journalism board of directors has elected new officers and acknowledged the distinguished service of three retiring members.
Wisconsin Watch, WPR, join NEW News Lab collaboration to boost coverage of the Fox Valley
Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio have joined the NEW News Lab (Northeast Wisconsin News Lab), a new collaborative that provides technology support, capacity building and additional funding to boost local journalism and newsrooms.
Wisconsin Watch’s coverage of racial justice, unemployment and pandemic win top Milwaukee Press Club honors
Wisconsin Watch won three gold awards from the Milwaukee Press Club Wednesday for 2020 coverage of racial justice protests,Wisconsin’s broken unemployment system and an examination of flaws in data reporting early in the pandemic.
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