STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER
See PUBLIC DEFENDERS
STATE SEAL
Private detectives
Section RL 3.24 Wis. Adm. Code prohibits use of any badge by those engaged in private detective activity. Non-misleading private use by those not engaged in private detective activity not prohibited by statute. 68-169
STATE STREET MALL-CAPITOL CONCOURSE
Assessments
State property is not subject to assessment of special charges under sec. 66.60(16), Stats., for maintenance of State Street Mall-Capitol Concourse project as proposed by the City of Madison. Section 66.64, Stats., is limited to special assessments for improvements. 69-269
STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
See UNIVERSITY
STATISTICS
See also LEGISLATION; VITAL STATISTICS
Prisons and prisoners
Department of Health and Social Services has power to compel cooperation of county and local officers in obtaining jail information. Sec. 46.16, Stats. 67-242
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
Old age assistance lien
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE INDIANS
See also INDIANS
Fish and game
The Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Tribe has the exclusive right to hunt and fish on tribal lands and has the right to regulate such activities by both Indian and non-Indian persons upon such lands. Current and former Stockbridge Munsee Reservation boundaries discussed. 69-72
STREAMS
See also NAVIGABLE WATERS
Criminal law
In order to obtain a conviction for violating sec. 30.195, Stats., the State must show that the defendant changed the course of a navigable stream and that no permit to change the stream's course had been granted to the defendant. The State need not show that the changed portion of the stream was navigable, nor a specific intent to change the stream's course. 67-265
STREET IMPROVEMENT
See APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES; HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES; MUNICIPALITIES
STUDENTS
See also EDUCATION
Bus riding privileges
Students may have bus riding privileges suspended without being suspended or expelled from school. However, both public and private school students must be afforded due process as provided by sec. 120.13(1), Stats., before such suspension can take place. 63-526
Confidential reports
A school cannot use confidential information obtained from law enforcement authorities to require students, under threat of expulsion, to participate in group or individual counseling, nor can the school use such information to suspend or expel students. The school can use such confidential information to refer a student to county social welfare agencies or nongovernmental self-help groups, but only if the student consents to such referral. 76-134
Elections
Campuses of the University of Wisconsin System have no present authority to regulate political canvassing in University-owned dormitories which does not involve the solicitation of monetary contributions. 65-261
Higher Educational Aids Board
The Wisconsin Higher Education Corporation may provide administrative services to lenders, charge a reasonable fee, and may transfer any excess funds it receives from such fees to the appropriations of the Higher Educational Aids Board or the State. (Unpub.). 3-1977
Legal services program
Regents should identify how compulsory fees will be used to necessarily and conveniently further the objects of the University before approving a segregated fee, under sec. 37.11(8), Stats., to finance a legal services program for Oshkosh Student Association. 63-385
Loans
Change in method of computing special allowance payable on eligible student loans will not result in "materially lower rate of return." (Unpub.). 40-1982
Guaranteed Student Loan Program; Higher Education Aids Board; the legal relationship between the Higher Education Aids Board and the Wisconsin Higher Education Corporation, as affected by various revenue bond agreements, discussed. 72-135
Student loan funds established by gift under sec. 36.065, Stats., for the benefit of students are trust funds. 62-109
Records
Section 13.94, Stats., contains authority for the State Auditor to secure certain information from student records for the purpose of auditing full time equivalency reports submitted by the University of Wisconsin. (Unpub.). 84-1978
Tuition grants
Students who attend state vocational, technical and adult institutions are eligible for tuition grants under sec. 39.30, Stats. 66-182
SUBDIVISIONS
See PLATS AND PLATTING
SUBPOENA
Administrative hearings
In administrative hearings, a subpoenaed witness has a duty to attend pursuant to the subpoena and to remain in attendance until excused. 68-251
Lobbying Law
Certain provisions of Substitute Amendment 1 to 1977 Senate Bill 286, revising subch. III of ch. 13, Stats., the State's Lobbying Law, are incompatible with the rights of Wisconsin citizens to petition the government and to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures and are therefore probably unconstitutional. The major portion of the Bill is constitutional. (Unpub.). 15-1978
In principle, the purposes sought to be accomplished by Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 to 1977 Assembly Bill 93, revising subch. III of ch. 13, Stats., the State's Lobbying Law are compatible with the rights of Wisconsin citizens to petition the government and to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. Some of the means selected to accomplish those purposes may, on their face or as applied violate citizens' First Amendment right of petition. 67-85
Patient records
Prior to releasing patient records in response to a warrant or subpoena, a federally funded or federally assisted drug treatment facility must first ascertain that the issuing court has made a finding of "good cause" within the meaning of 21 U.S.C. sec. 1175(b)(2)(C) in order to avoid the possibility of a fine under 21 U.S.C. sec. 1175(f). If there is no evidence that a finding of good cause has been made, no state criminal law is violated by refusing to release drug treatment records. 72-12
Personnel Commission
