Section 40.80(2m), Stats. (as created by 1989 Wisconsin Act 31), requires the Deferred Compensation Board to establish administrative rules for alternative or supplemental deferred compensation plans but does not require that any such plans be offered. 79-168
DELEGATES
See ELECTIONS
DENTAL EXAMINERS, BOARD OF
Open meeting
A member of the Dentistry Examining Board has a right to tape record an open meeting of the Board, providing he does so in a manner that does not interfere with such meeting; and the Board cannot lawfully deny such right. A Board member does not have a right to tape record a closed meeting of the Board. 66-318
DENTISTRY
Corporations
Restrictions on business corporations providing medical, legal and dental services discussed. 75-200
Crime victims compensation
Under ch. 949, Stats., DILHR is not authorized to direct payment of expenses incurred by victims of crime for dental, chiropractic, podiatric, or optometric services. (Unpub.). 84-1977
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
See CHILDREN
DEPUTY SHERIFFS
See SHERIFFS
DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF
Housing agency
The Department of Development is authorized to act as a public housing agency for the purpose of participating in the federal lower-income housing assistance program set forth in 42 U.S.C. sec. 1437f (Ch. 8). The Department is not required to obtain local approval prior to participating in the Ch. 8 program. (Unpub.). 61-1980
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES BOARD
See 51.42/51.437 BOARD
DIRECT REFERENDUM
See ELECTIONS
DISABLED PERSONS
See PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
DISCRIMINATION
See also CIVIL RIGHTS
Adoption agencies
A contract between the Department of Health and Social Services and an association of private adoption agencies does not result in legally prohibited religious discrimination where any religious preferences are limited to the statutory religious matching requirement. (Unpub.). 32-1983
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
County collective bargaining agreement providing for payment of employe contribution to Wisconsin Retirement System only for those deputy sheriffs under age fifty-five violates the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. 72-91
Bartenders' licenses
Section 66.054(11), Stats., which permits the issuance of bartenders' licenses to persons of "good moral character" does not automatically preclude issuance to a former offender, especially in light of sec. 111.32(5)(h), Stats., which prohibits discrimination in employment or occupational licensing based upon a criminal conviction (with certain exceptions). 68-202
Children
Counties may adopt and enforce fair housing ordinances under section 66.432, Stats., in municipalities within such counties which already have enacted their own fair housing ordinance. No double jeopardy problem arises if a county and a municipality in the county simultaneously seek to enforce their fair housing ordinances in connection with a single act of discrimination, provided that a violation of one or both of the ordinances is punishable only by a forfeiture. Section 66.432 authorizes cities, villages, towns and counties to prohibit bases of discrimination in addition to those specified in sections 66.432 and 101.22. 74-234
Cities
Cities, counties, and other local governmental entities not being a part of the executive or legislative branches of state government are neither "contracting agencies" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.765(1), Stats., which requires a nondiscrimination clause in contracts, nor are such entities "subdivisions" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.755(1), Stats., which empowers the Council on Small and Minority Business to review the extent of small business participation in purchasing by the State and its subdivisions. 68-306
Conviction records
1. A licensing agency may not ask an applicant about juvenile delinquency records. 2. A licensing agency may request information from an applicant regarding conviction records under sec. 111.32(5)(h), Stats. 67-327
Counties
A county may enact an ordinance requiring its contractors to agree to a policy of non-discrimination in employment, even though such an ordinance provides broader protection than that afforded by state and federal equal employment opportunity laws, as long as such ordinance does not conflict with such laws. 70-64
Cities, counties, and other local governmental entities not being a part of the executive or legislative branches of state government are neither "contracting agencies" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.765(1), Stats., which requires a nondiscrimination clause in contracts, nor are such entities "subdivisions" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.755(1), Stats., which empowers the Council on Small and Minority Business to review the extent of small business participation in purchasing by the State and its subdivisions. 68-306
Drugs
The state and local units of government are not "purchasers" under sec. 100.31, Stats., and sellers of drugs are not prohibited from offering or according to them pricing arrangements which are not made available to other purchasers. 65-59
Fair Employment Act
Register in Probate is protected by the Fair Employment Act which protection is not affected by a defect in the appointment. 67-169
Fair Housing Ordinance
Counties may adopt and enforce fair housing ordinances under section 66.432, Stats., in municipalities within such counties which already have enacted their own fair housing ordinance. No double jeopardy problem arises if a county and a municipality in the county simultaneously seek to enforce their fair housing ordinances in connection with a single act of discrimination, provided that a violation of one or both of the ordinances is punishable only by a forfeiture. Section 66.432 authorizes cities, villages, towns and counties to prohibit bases of discrimination in addition to those specified in sections 66.432 and 101.22. 74-234
Housing
The Wisconsin Open Housing Law permits, but does not require, the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations to receive and process class action complaints of housing discrimination. 70-250
Indians
Discrimination such as the use by public schools of American Indian logos, mascots or nicknames does come within the purview of section 118.13 of the Wisconsin statutes. 80-321
Jailer
The provisions of sec. 53.41, Stats., which require that at least one jailer on duty be of the same sex as those persons in custody does not conflict with the anti-sex discrimination provisions of the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act. Concept of "bona fide occupational qualification" under federal Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act discussed. Counties must comply with sec. 53.41, Stats., when they can do so without conflict with Title VII. 70-202
Legal counsel
A state agency may insist on the presence of legal counsel when making agency personnel available for informal interviews conducted by Personnel Commission equal rights officers in the course of investigating complaints of employment discrimination against such state agency, where the equal rights officer wishes to (1) conduct on the job interviews of nonmanagerial personnel, or (2) interview agency supervisors who are not named or "immediately" involved in the discriminatory actions in question. 70-167
Local government entities
Cities, counties, and other local governmental entities not being a part of the executive or legislative branches of state government are neither "contracting agencies" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.765(1), Stats., which requires a nondiscrimination clause in contracts, nor are such entities "subdivisions" of the State within the meaning of sec. 16.755(1), Stats., which empowers the Council on Small and Minority Business to review the extent of small business participation in purchasing by the State and its subdivisions. 68-306
Nursing homes
