165.70(1)(a)
(a) Investigate crime that is statewide in nature, importance or influence.
165.70(1)(b)
(b) Except as provided in sub.
(1m), enforce chs.
945 and
961 and ss.
940.20 (3),
940.201,
941.25,
941.26,
943.01 (2) (c),
943.011,
943.27,
943.28,
943.30,
944.30 (1m),
944.31,
944.32,
944.33,
944.34,
946.65,
947.02 (3) and
(4),
948.075,
948.08, and
948.081.
165.70(1)(e)
(e) Investigate violations of ch.
563 that are statewide in nature, importance or influence.
165.70(2)
(2) The attorney general shall appoint, under the classified service, investigative personnel to achieve the purposes set out in sub.
(1) who shall have the powers of a peace officer. As many as are deemed necessary of the investigators so appointed shall be trained in drugs and narcotics law enforcement, or shall receive such training within one year of their appointment, and they shall assist, when appropriate, local law enforcement agencies to help them meet their responsibilities in this area.
165.70(3)
(3) It is the intention of this section to give the attorney general responsibility for devising programs to control crime statewide in nature, importance or influence, drugs and narcotics abuse, commercial gambling other than what is described in s.
945.03 (2m) or
945.04 (2m), prostitution, and arson. Nothing herein shall deprive or relieve local peace officers of the power and duty to enforce those provisions enumerated in sub.
(1).
165.70(4)
(4) District attorneys, sheriffs and chiefs of police shall cooperate and assist the personnel of the department in the performance of their duties.
165.71
165.71
Human trafficking resource center hotline poster. 165.71(1)(1)
The department of justice shall design a poster, or obtain a predesigned poster, that provides information regarding a human trafficking resource center hotline. The department shall ensure that the size of poster makes it legible and that the poster informs individuals what human trafficking is and provides a phone number that a victim or someone who knows a victim can call or text for help and services. The poster shall be in English and Spanish, and, for each county, in any other language required for voting materials in that county under federal law.
165.71(2)
(2) The department of justice shall make the poster under sub.
(1) available to others to print from its Internet site and shall encourage its display at each of the following places:
165.71(2)(a)
(a) Gas stations with signs visible from an interstate or state highway that offer amenities to commercial vehicles.
165.71(2)(d)
(d) Salons at which hair or nail services are provided.
165.71(2)(e)
(e) Places at which employers engage some employees to perform agricultural labor.
165.71(2)(g)
(g) Places at which athletic or sporting events occur.
165.71(2)(h)
(h) Establishments that operate as a massage parlor or spa, alternative health clinic, or similar entity.
165.71(2)(i)
(i) Expositions conducted by a county or agricultural society.
165.71(2)(k)
(k) Rest areas maintained by the department of transportation.
165.71 History
History: 2015 a. 5.
165.72
165.72
Controlled substances hotline and rewards for controlled substances tips. 165.72(2)
(2) Hotline. The department of justice shall maintain a single toll-free telephone number during normal retail business hours, as determined by departmental rule, for all of the following:
165.72(2)(a)
(a) For persons to anonymously provide tips regarding suspected controlled substances violations.
165.72(2)(b)
(b) For pharmacists to report suspected controlled substances violations.
165.72(3)
(3) Reward payment program. The department shall administer a reward payment program. Under the program, the department may offer and pay rewards from the appropriation under s.
20.455 (2) (m) for information under sub.
(2) (a) leading to the arrest and conviction of a person for a violation of ch.
961.
165.72(4)
(4) Payment limitations. A reward under sub.
(3) may not exceed $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of any one person. The department may not make any reward payment to a law enforcement officer, jail officer, juvenile detention officer, pharmacist, or department employee.
165.72(5)
(5) Department authority. If a reward is claimed, the department shall make the final determination regarding any payment. The department may pay portions of a reward to 2 or more persons. The payment of a reward is not subject to a contested case proceeding under ch.
227. The offer of a reward under sub.
(3) does not create any liability on the department or the state.
165.72(6)
(6) Records. The department may withhold any record under this section from inspection or copying under s.
19.35.
165.72(7)
(7) Publicity. The department shall cooperate with the department of public instruction in publicizing, in public schools, the use of the toll-free telephone number under sub.
(2).
165.75
165.75
Crime laboratories. 165.75(1)(a)
(a) “Department" means the department of justice.
165.75(1)(b)
(b) “Employee" means any person in the service of the laboratories. “Employee" does not include any division administrator.
165.75(1)(c)
(c) “Laboratories" means the crime laboratories.
165.75(2)
(2) The personnel of the laboratories shall consist of such employees as are authorized under s.
20.922.
165.75(3)(a)(a) The purpose of the laboratories is to establish, maintain and operate crime laboratories to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement officers in the various fields of scientific investigation in the aid of law enforcement. Without limitation because of enumeration the laboratories shall maintain services and employ the necessary specialists, technical and scientific employees for the recognition and proper preservation, marking and scientific analysis of evidence material in the investigation and prosecution of crimes in such fields as firearms identification, the comparison and identification of toolmarks, chemistry, identification of questioned documents, metallurgy, comparative microscopy, instrumental detection of deception, the identification of fingerprints, toxicology, serology and forensic photography.
165.75(3)(b)
(b) The employees are not peace officers and have no power of arrest or to serve or execute criminal process. They shall not be appointed as deputy sheriffs and shall not be given police powers by appointment or election to any office. Employees shall not undertake investigation of criminal conduct except upon the request of a sheriff, coroner, medical examiner, district attorney, chief of police, warden or superintendent of any state prison, attorney general or governor. The head of any state agency may request investigations but in those cases the services shall be limited to the field of health, welfare and law enforcement responsibility which has by statute been vested in the particular state agency.
165.75(3)(c)
(c) Upon request under par.
(b), the laboratories shall collaborate fully in the complete investigation of criminal conduct within their competence in the forensic sciences including field investigation at the scene of the crime and for this purpose may equip a mobile unit or units.
165.75(3)(d)
(d) The services of the laboratories available to such officer shall include appearances in court as expert witnesses.
165.75(3)(e)
(e) The department may decline to provide laboratory service in any case not involving a potential charge of felony.
165.75(3)(f)
(f) The services of the laboratories may be provided in civil cases in which the state or any department, bureau, agency or officer of the state is a party in an official capacity, when requested to do so by the attorney general.
165.75(3)(g)
(g) Deoxyribonucleic acid testing ordered under s.
974.07 shall have priority, consistent with the right of a defendant or the state to a speedy trial and consistent with the right of a victim to the prompt disposition of a case.
165.75(4)
(4) The operation of the laboratories shall conform to the rules and policies established by the attorney general.
165.75(5)
(5) Except as provided in s.
20.001 (5), all moneys received as restitution payments reimbursing the department for moneys expended by the laboratories shall be deposited as general purpose revenue — earned.
165.75 Annotation
Sub. (1) (b) refers to employees as persons in the service of the laboratories. However, sub. (2) explicitly states that “the personnel of the laboratories shall consist of such employees as are authorized under s. 20.922." Section 20.922 authorizes state agencies to appoint employees. The Department of Justice is the state agency of which the crime laboratories are a part. Thus the crime laboratory is not a suable entity separate from the department. Odogba v. Wisconsin Department of Justice,
22 F. Supp. 3d 895 (2014).
165.75 Annotation
An evaluation of drug testing procedures. Stein, Laessig, Indriksons, 1973 WLR 727.
165.755
165.755
Crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge. 165.755(1)(a)
(a) Except as provided in par.
(b), a court shall impose under ch.
814 a crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge of $13 if the court imposes a sentence, places a person on probation, or imposes a forfeiture for a violation of state law or for a violation of a municipal or county ordinance.
165.755(1)(b)
(b) A court may not impose the crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge under par.
(a) for a violation of s.
101.123 (2) or
(2m), for a financial responsibility violation under s.
344.62 (2), or for a violation of a state law or municipal or county ordinance involving a nonmoving traffic violation, a violation under s.
343.51 (1m) (b), or a safety belt use violation under s.
347.48 (2m).
165.755(2)
(2) If the court under sub.
(1) (a) imposes a sentence or forfeiture for multiple offenses or places a person on probation for multiple offenses, a separate crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge shall be imposed under ch.
814 for each separate offense.
165.755(3)
(3) Except as provided in sub.
(4), after the court determines the amount due under sub.
(1) (a), the clerk of the court shall collect and transmit the amount to the county treasurer under s.
59.40 (2) (m). The county treasurer shall then make payment to the secretary of administration under s.
59.25 (3) (f) 2. 165.755(4)
(4) If a municipal court imposes a forfeiture, after determining the amount due under sub.
(1) (a) the court shall collect and transmit such amount to the treasurer of the county, city, town, or village, and that treasurer shall make payment to the secretary of administration as provided in s.
66.0114 (1) (bm).
165.755(5)
(5) If any deposit of bail is made for a noncriminal offense to which sub.
(1) (a) applies, the person making the deposit shall also deposit a sufficient amount to include the surcharge under sub.
(1) (a) for forfeited bail. If bail is forfeited, the amount of the surcharge under sub.
(1) (a) shall be transmitted monthly to the secretary of administration under this section. If bail is returned, the surcharge shall also be returned.
165.755(6)
(6) If an inmate in a state prison or a person sentenced to a state prison has not paid the crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharge under sub.
(1) (a), the department shall assess and collect the amount owed from the inmate's wages or other moneys. Any amount collected shall be transmitted to the secretary of administration.
165.755(7)
(7) All moneys collected from crime laboratories and drug law enforcement surcharges under this section shall be deposited by the secretary of administration and used as specified in ss.
20.455 (2) (jb),
(kd), and
(Lm) and
20.475 (1) (km).
165.755 History
History: 1997 a. 27;
1999 a. 9,
72;
1999 a. 150 s.
672;
2001 a. 16;
2003 a. 30,
33,
139,
268,
326,
327;
2005 a. 25,
455;
2009 a. 12,
28,
100,
276;
2011 a. 260;
2015 a. 55.
165.76
165.76
Submission of human biological specimen. 165.76(1)(1)
A person shall provide a biological specimen to the state crime laboratories for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis if he or she meets any of the following criteria:
165.76(1)(a)
(a) Is or was in a juvenile correctional facility, as defined in s.
938.02 (10p), or a secured residential care center for children and youth, as defined in s.
938.02 (15g), or on probation, extended supervision, parole, supervision, or aftercare supervision on or after August 12, 1993, for any violation of s.
940.225 (1) or
(2),
948.02 (1) or
(2),
948.025, or
948.085.
165.76(1)(ar)
(ar) Is or was in prison on or after January 1, 2000, for a felony committed in this state.
165.76(1)(as)
(as) Is or was found guilty of any misdemeanor on or after April 1, 2015.
165.76(1)(av)
(av) Is or was found guilty on or after January 1, 2000, of any of the following:
165.76(1)(d)
(d) Has been found to be a sexually violent person under ch.
980 on or after June 2, 1994.
165.76(1)(e)
(e) Is or was released on parole or extended supervision or placed on probation in another state before January 1, 2000, and is or was on parole, extended supervision, or probation in this state from the other state under s.
304.13 (1m),
304.135, or
304.16 on or after July 9, 1996, for a violation of the law of the other state that the department of corrections determines, under s.
304.137 (1), is comparable to a violation of s.
940.225 (1) or
(2),
948.02 (1) or
(2),
948.025, or
948.085.
