165.12 Opioid settlement.
165.25 Duties of department of justice.
165.255 Representation in sexually violent person commitment proceedings.
165.26 Department of justice may have cases printed.
165.28 Office of school safety.
165.30 Collection of delinquent obligations.
165.40 Acquisition of hospitals.
165.50 Criminal investigation.
165.505 Internet crimes against children and human trafficking; administrative subpoena.
165.51 State fire marshal.
165.55 Arson investigation.
165.63 Access to firearm prohibition orders.
165.65 Drug disposal program.
165.68 Address confidentiality program.
165.70 Investigation of statewide crime.
165.71 Human trafficking resource center hotline poster.
165.72 Controlled substances hotline and rewards for controlled substances tips.
165.75 Crime laboratories.
165.755 Crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge.
165.76 Submission of human biological specimen.
165.765 Biological specimen; force and immunity.
165.77 Deoxyribonucleic acid analysis and data bank.
165.775 Sexual assault kits.
165.776 Sexual assault kit tracking system.
165.78 Information center; training activities.
165.785 Crime alert network.
165.79 Evidence privileged.
165.80 Cooperation with other state departments.
165.81 Disposal of evidence.
165.82 Criminal history search fee.
165.825 Information link.
165.827 Transaction information for the management of enforcement system; fees.
165.8285 Transaction information for management of enforcement system; department of corrections records.
165.8287 Transaction information for management of enforcement system; department of transportation photographs.
165.83 Criminal identification, records and statistics.
165.84 Cooperation in criminal identification, records and statistics.
165.845 Collection and reporting of crime and criminal justice data.
165.85 Law enforcement standards board.
165.86 Law enforcement training.
165.87 Body cameras and law enforcement.
165.88 Grants for school safety.
165.89 Grants to certain counties for law enforcement programs.
165.90 County-tribal law enforcement programs.
165.91 Grants to tribes for law enforcement programs.
165.92 Tribal law enforcement officers; powers and duties.
165.93 Sexual assault victim services; grants.
165.937 Grants for protection of elders.
165.94 Global positioning system pilot programs; grants.
165.95 Alternatives to incarceration; grant program.
165.955 Drug court; grant program.
165.957 Frequent testing for use of alcohol or a controlled substance; pilot program.
165.96 Child advocacy grants.
165.967 Court appointed special advocates; grants.
165.98 Grants for body cameras for law enforcement officers.
165.982 Weed and seed project grants.
165.983 Law enforcement technology grants.
165.984 Law enforcement drug trafficking response grants.
165.986 Beat patrol officers; grant program.
165.987 Youth diversion programs; grant program.
165.989 Community-oriented policing-house grant program.
165.015
165.015
Duties. The attorney general shall:
165.015(1)
(1)
Give opinion to officers. Give his or her opinion in writing, when required, without fee, upon all questions of law submitted to him or her by the legislature, either house thereof or the senate or assembly committee on organization, or by the head of any department of state government.
165.015(2)
(2)
Protect trust funds. Examine all applications for loans from any of the trust funds, and furnish to the commissioners of public lands his or her opinion in writing as to the regularity of each such application, and also of the validity of any bonds or other securities purchased for the benefit of such funds.
165.015(3)
(3)
Certify bonds. Examine a certified copy of all proceedings preliminary to any issue of state bonds or notes, and, if found regular and valid, endorse on each bond or note his or her certificate of such examination and validity. The attorney general shall also make similar examinations and certificates respecting municipal bonds in the cases specified in s.
67.025.
165.015(4)
(4)
Keep statement of fees. Keep a detailed statement of all fees, including his or her fees as commissioner of public lands, received by him or her during the preceding year, and file such statement with the department of administration on or before June 30 in each year.
165.015(5)
(5)
Report to legislature. Upon request of the legislature or either house thereof, submit a report upon any matters pertaining to the duties of his or her office to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under s.
13.172 (2).
165.015(6)
(6)
Perform other duties. Perform all other duties imposed upon the attorney general by law.
165.015 Annotation
The attorney general, absent a specific legislative grant of power, is devoid of the inherent power to initiate and prosecute litigation intended to protect or promote the interests of the state or its citizens and cannot act for the state as parens patriae. Flatley v. State,
63 Wis. 2d 254,
217 N.W.2d 258 (1974).
165.015 Annotation
The attorney general does not have authority to challenge the constitutionality of statutes. Any authority the attorney general has is found in the statutes. The attorney general's constitutional powers and statutory powers are one and the same. State v. City of Oak Creek,
2000 WI 9,
232 Wis. 2d 612,
605 N.W.2d 526,
97-2188.
165.015 Annotation
The Powers of the Attorney General in Wisconsin. Van Alstyne & Roberts. 1974 WLR 721.
165.017
165.017
Review of certain detentions or petitions for commitment. 165.017(2)(2)
The attorney general or his or her designee shall review and approve or disapprove all proposed petitions for commitment of individuals as specified under s.
51.20 (1) (ad) 1. 165.017(4)
(4) Subsection
(2) does not apply if the attorney general makes a finding that a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, in a case in which the constitutionality of s.
51.20 (1) (a) 2. e. has been challenged, has upheld the constitutionality of s.
51.20 (1) (a) 2. e. 165.017 History
History: 1995 a. 292;
2001 a. 16.
165.02
165.02
Federal appropriations adjustments. 165.02(1)(1)
In this section, “the schedule" means the schedule under s.
20.005 (3) as published in the biennial budget act for the first fiscal year of a fiscal biennium and as approved by the joint committee on finance under s.
20.004 (2) for the 2nd fiscal year of a fiscal biennium.
165.02(2)(a)(a) Subject to par.
(b), annually by December 1 or within 30 days after the applicable federal appropriation bill for that federal fiscal year has been enacted, whichever is later, the attorney general shall submit to the joint committee on finance a plan identifying how the attorney general proposes to adjust the federal appropriations for the department of justice for that state fiscal year to reflect the most recent estimate of the amount of federal funds that the department of justice will be appropriated in that state fiscal year.
165.02(2)(b)
(b) The attorney general is required to submit a plan under par.
(a) only if the most recent estimate of the amount of federal funds that the department of justice will be appropriated under s.
20.455 in the current state fiscal year is less than 95 percent or more than 105 percent of the amount of federal revenue shown in the schedule for the appropriations under s.
20.455 in that fiscal year.
165.02(3)
(3) After receiving a plan under sub.
(2) (a), the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance jointly shall determine whether the plan is complete. If the joint committee on finance meets and either approves or modifies and approves a plan submitted under sub.
(2) (a) within 14 days after the cochairpersons determine that the plan is complete, the attorney general shall implement the plan as approved by the committee. If the joint committee on finance does not meet and either approve or modify and approve a plan submitted under sub.
(2) (a) within 14 days after the cochairpersons determine that the plan is complete, the attorney general shall implement the proposed plan.
165.02 History
History: 1997 a. 86.
165.055(1)(1)
The attorney general may appoint a deputy attorney general and assistants each of whom shall be an attorney at law admitted to practice in this state. Such appointments shall be made in writing and filed in the office of the secretary of state, and such appointees shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office which shall also be filed. Appointees shall perform such duties as the attorney general prescribes.
165.055(2)
(2) The attorney general shall be responsible for all acts of the deputy attorney general.
165.055(4)
(4) The attorney general shall appoint, in the unclassified service, the administrator of the legal services division subject to s.
230.08 (4) (a).
