SB751: Bill Text

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

2023 Senate BILL 751

December 8, 2023 - Introduced by Senators Roys, Taylor, L. Johnson, Larson and Spreitzer, cosponsored by Representatives Madison, Clancy, Drake, Baldeh, Conley, Joers, Shelton, Emerson, Stubbs, J. Anderson, Moore Omokunde and Palmeri. Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.

SB751,1,2 An Act to create 301.03 (17m) of the statutes; relating to: Department of Corrections reporting of complaints in state correctional institutions.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Corrections to establish and maintain on its website an interactive reporting system that is updated every 72 hours and that reports all of the following complaint data for each state correctional institution:

1. The total number of complaints filed in the current calendar year.

2. For every complaint filed, all complaint data, disaggregated, in a format that is searchable by each category of information contained in the complaint and that does not contain any personally identifying information for an inmate or employee of the state correctional institution.

The reporting system must be established within six months of the bill's passage.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SB751,1 Section 1 . 301.03 (17m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB751,2,3 301.03 (17m) Establish and maintain on the department's website an interactive reporting system that is updated no less frequently than every 72 hours and that reports all of the following for each state correctional institution:

SB751,2,5 (a) The total number of complaints filed about that state correctional institution in the current calendar year.

SB751,2,10 (b) For every complaint filed about the state correctional institution, all complaint data, disaggregated, in a format that is searchable by each category of information contained in the complaint and that does not contain any personally identifying information for an inmate or employee of the state correctional institution.

SB751,2 Section 2 . Nonstatutory provisions.

SB751,2,14 (1) The reporting system required under s. 301.03 (17m) shall be operable by no later than the first day of the 7th month beginning after the effective date of this subsection.

SB751,2,15 (End)