Fingerprinting applicants
A county may not require or request that a public assistance applicant or recipient provide a fingerprint for the purposes of identification as a precondition to receiving aid. 74-185
Fraud investigation
Information contained in a county paternity case file may be released for purposes of fraud investigation of the public assistance programs specified in section 49.53, Stats. 80-226
Indigent prisoner
Section 53.38, Stats., is exclusively applicable in providing relief from medical and hospital care costs incurred by an indigent prisoner while receiving emergency medical treatment in a hospital. 69-230
Medical aid
Power of county to provide limited rescue functions in connection with ambulance service and make charges discussed. 65-87
Medical assistance
A county health facility may not charge for non-medical assistance services given to medical assistance patients in excess of medical assistance rates without violating section 49.49, Stats. 73-68
Old age assistance liens
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
Statute of limitations
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
Tuition
The term "legal settlement" as used in sec. 121.77(1), Stats., is interpreted. 65-301
Welfare checks
The conclusion of 52 OAG 439 (1963), that welfare payment checks must not only be prepared but actually mailed by the County Treasurer, is still valid. 70-201
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Christmas pageant
The described Christmas pageant presented by the Madison Civic Music Association, Inc., in the Capitol does not involve governmental advancement or inhibition of religion or governmental entanglement with religion as contemplated and prohibited by Wis. Const. art. I, sec. 18. 67-180
Physically handicapped
While neither the United States Constitution nor the Wisconsin Constitution compels states to require that public buildings and seats of government be constructed and maintained as to be accessible to the physically handicapped, the Legislature has an affirmative duty to address this problem and assure equal access to all constituted classes of citizens, including the physically handicapped. 63-87
PUBLIC CONTRACT
See CONTRACTS
PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Administrative rules
The state public defender may be denied access to jail inmates who have not requested counsel, and jail authorities need only provide over the telephone that information necessary for the public defender to assess the need to make an indigency determination in person under section 977.07(1), Stats., for an inmate who has requested counsel and claims indigency. 78-133
Budget Bill for 1987
Section 16.49, Stats., does not prohibit or restrict an officer or employe from informing citizens of budget deliberations or suggesting that those citizens inform their elected officials of their opinions. 77-59
Civil forfeiture action
The State Public Defender has the authority to represent indigent material witnesses who are subject to the sec. 969.01(3), Stats., bail provisions so long as this does not create a conflict of interest with another client, but does not have the authority to represent an indigent in a civil forfeiture action unless that action is reasonably related to one for which the indigent is entitled to counsel. 72-61
County board
A county, acting through its county board, has the implied power to create a public defender's office to function as a county agency. 65-168
Implied Consent Law
The State Public Defender, under sec. 977.05(4)(h), Stats., may, if he deems it appropriate to do so, provide legal services to an indigent at a so-called "refusal hearing" conducted pursuant to sec. 343.305(8)(b)1. and 2., Stats., where such indigent, prior to such hearing, has been charged with a criminal offense or offenses based on the same situation as that giving rise to the indigent's refusal to provide a sample of his/her breath, blood or urine pursuant to sec. 343.305(2)(b), Stats. 71-16
Indigent
Power to appoint counsel for indigent defendant vested by sec. 970.02(6), Stats., in judge cannot be transferred without the consent of such judge to a nonstock, nonprofit corporation operating as a public defender's once absent specific legislation or rule promulgated by the Supreme Court. 62-132
The power to appoint counsel for an indigent defendant vested by sec. 970.02(6), Stats., in a judge cannot be transferred to a non-stock, nonprofit corporation operating as a public defender's office. 63-14
The State Public Defender has discretion under sec. 977.05(4)(j), Stats., to refuse appointment for indigents in conditions of confinement cases and in cases seeking post-conviction and post-commitment remedies where there is no absolute right to counsel. 71-211
Jail inmates
See Prisons and prisoners
Original records
Clerks of court are not authorized to send the original records of criminal cases to the public defender prior to the time an appeal has been taken unless an order signed by a judge of the court authorizes such release. 69-63
Prisons and prisoners, access to
The state public defender may be denied access to jail inmates who have not requested counsel, and jail authorities need only provide over the telephone that information necessary for the public defender to assess the need to make an indigency determination in person under section 977.07(1), Stats., for an inmate who has requested counsel and claims indigency. 78-133
Trial costs
Under sec. 977.08(5)(f), Stats., trial representation costs are incurred whenever services which give rise to a legal obligation to pay compensation are rendered between January 1 and June 30, 1981. 70-74
Wisconsin Indian Legal Services Center, Inc.
Wisconsin Indian Legal Services Center, Inc., is not a "local public defender organization," and the Public Defender Board has no authority to contract with such nonstock corporation for the furnishing of legal services to indigents pursuant to sec. 977.03, Stats. 66-334
PUBLIC EMPLOYES
See PUBLIC OFFICIALS
PUBLIC FUNDS
See FUNDS
PUBLIC HEALTH
Ambulance attendants
The Department of Health and Social Services has authority to establish standards for ambulance attendants under sec. 146.50, Stats. Discussion of malpractice liability of state officers and employes. 67-145
Ambulance service
Power of county to provide limited rescue functions in connection with ambulance service and to make reasonable charges therefor discussed in view of secs. 59.07(41), 146.35 and 146.50, Stats. 65-87
