Rule Petition 24-05: Public Interest Legal Services Fund
We submitted public comments to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in support of Rule Petition 24-05 to adequately fund the legal aid services that Wisconsinites rely upon.
At any given time, the ACLU of Wisconsin has thirty to forty active matters on its litigation docket. From municipalities infringing on individuals' free speech rights, to schools not taking race-based bullying seriously, to broader statewide issues.
We submitted public comments to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in support of Rule Petition 24-05 to adequately fund the legal aid services that Wisconsinites rely upon.
We sent 35 open records requests and went to court to protect voters from being removed from the voter registration rolls weeks before the November 2024 election.
We filed comments with the Wisconsin Supreme Court supporting a proposed new rule which would require that interpreters be provided to non-English speakers in all municipal court proceedings.
The Wisconsin DOC legally must provide programming to incarcerated parents that allows them physical custody of their children for the first year of life.