The Badger Project sued a Racine County police department after it twice denied records requests related to an officer who ...

The law enforcement agencies' minimum fees, experts say, contradict Wisconsin state law that states any charges for records ...

Experts say the new laws will strengthen emergency response across the state by funding more educational costs and increasing the payment EMS services get for treating but not transporting patients.

Following The Badger Project’s story noting it, the Richland Center Police Department and Richland County Sheriff stopped charging a minimum $25 fee for records requests, which experts said was ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...

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Wisconsin is one of many states to protect cops through a bill of rights, but it excludes state-employed police. Some lawmakers want to change that, while critics worry they are receiving special ...

A bill that would hike the penalty for impersonating a police officer in Wisconsin from a misdemeanor to a felony passed the state Assembly and now sits in the state Senate. Introduced by a handful of ...

Matthew Elliott resigned from the sheriff’s department last month, just days after The Badger Project requested a 2022 investigation into him propositioning colleagues and sending others lewd photos.

A K9 officer for a police department in southeastern Wisconsin resigned in 2024 amid an internal investigation that began after his ex-girlfriend, herself a police officer in the area, alleged that he ...

Last year, 74 people died and about 5,500 were injured in car crashes in Milwaukee, according to the city’s Traffic Violence Dashboard. That’s a 45% increase in fatalities compared to 2014. A 2024 ...