Wisconsin
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Wisconsin (WI) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Wisconsin counts here.
This is not the same set as Wisconsin's jurisdiction page, which records the 8 entries where Wisconsin's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
6 entries · 5 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Milwaukee city 2 entries
U.S. Education Department opened Title VI investigation into Milwaukee schools over race-conscious discipline
On August 19, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights notified Milwaukee Public Schools that it is investigating whether the district's student-discipline practices improperly use race, one of two Title VI investigations the department opened that day. The department's statement, issued alongside new Title VI guidance barring race-conscious discipline, said Milwaukee education leaders had "derided facially neutral school policies as reflecting systemic 'whiteness,'" without specifying what triggered the probe.
DHS falsely accused Milwaukee immigrant of threatening to assassinate Trump, then pursued his deportation without retracting the claim
On May 28, 2025, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem publicly accused Milwaukee immigrant Ramón Morales Reyes of sending a letter threatening to assassinate President Trump, days after Milwaukee police and the U.S. Secret Service had reason to doubt he wrote it. DHS pursued his detention and deportation on that basis, and the agency's original accusation remains online without retraction even after Wisconsin authorities convicted and sentenced the actual author, Demetric Scott, to more than 16 years in prison for forging the letter to prevent Morales Reyes from testifying against him.
Kenosha County county 1 entry
Kenosha County deputy charged with felony misconduct for using Flock and Polaris databases to track a coworker
On August 19, 2026, the Kenosha County District Attorney's Office charged former Kenosha County Sheriff's Deputy Frank McGrath with two felony counts of misconduct in public office for using the FLOCK license-plate-reader network and the Polaris squad-tracking system to monitor a fellow deputy with whom he had a personal relationship. A county internal investigation had already substantiated the conduct, but McGrath was permitted to resign under a negotiated separation agreement in December 2025 without the matter being referred for criminal review; a prosecutor took it up only after Kenosha County Eye publisher Kevin Mathewson filed a John Doe petition in March 2026 asking a judge to compel the review.
Menasha city 1 entry
Menasha, Wisconsin officer Cristian Morales used department's Flock system to track ex-girlfriend's car
On October 9, 2025, Menasha, Wisconsin police officer Cristian Morales, 31, ran five Flock Safety license-plate-reader searches for his ex-girlfriend's vehicles while off duty and using his personal phone, logging the reason as a "welfare" check with no case number attached, after the two had broken up the previous month. Morales was arrested and charged with felony misconduct in office on January 7, 2026, after his ex-girlfriend reported her suspicions to Appleton police; he was placed on administrative leave, resigned from the department later that month, and was ultimately convicted and sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation.
Oshkosh city 1 entry
Wisconsin Judicial Commission charged Winnebago County judge with threatening attorneys, demanding $28,000 payment over political support
On August 3, 2026, the Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed a formal misconduct complaint with the Wisconsin Supreme Court against Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Scott Woldt. The complaint alleges that after his contested 2023 reelection, Woldt threatened attorneys who had backed his opponent and demanded a $28,000 campaign-cost payment from one of them, and separately questioned a Filipino-descent psychiatrist expert witness's understanding of English during a 2023 hearing. Woldt, previously suspended in 2021 for unrelated misconduct, denies wrongdoing through his attorney; a three-judge panel will review the complaint.
Wisconsin Dells city 1 entry
ICE detained Colombian asylum-seeker Diana Socha Torres and her 8-year-old son at their Wisconsin Dells home, transferring them to a Texas facility
On June 23, 2026, ICE agents detained Diana Socha Torres, a 43-year-old Colombian asylum-seeker with a pending case, and her 8-year-old son at their Wisconsin Dells home after telling the family they were coming to change her ankle monitor. The pair were taken to ICE's Milwaukee office and, by the next morning, the online detainee locator listed Socha Torres at the Dilley immigration processing center in Texas. ICE cited an in-absentia removal order entered after she missed a hearing; she says she never received notice of it.