On Monday, Feb. 6, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office and the Oneida County Humane Society removed 39 dogs from the It Matters to One Animal Rescue. Tuesday, February 7, 2017 The Oneida County district attorney ordered open government training for all Oneida County supervisors after finding that a county committee violated the open-meetings law, but the county has selected an attorney to draft the training document and give the presentation who has routinely fought cases against records requesters, and was one of the lead attorneys in The Times’ records case against the county’s sheriff’s department, a case the county lost in 2016.
Category: Oneida County, WI
Oneida County
On Monday, Feb. 6, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office and the Oneida County Humane Society removed 39 dogs from the It Matters to One Animal Rescue. Tuesday, February 7, 2017 The Oneida County district attorney ordered open government training for all Oneida County supervisors after finding that a county committee violated the open-meetings law, but the county has selected an attorney to draft the training document and give the presentation who has routinely fought cases against records requesters, and was one of the lead attorneys in The Times’ records case against the county’s sheriff’s department, a case the county lost in 2016.
Opinions
In his upcoming budget proposal, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to establish a series of sunrise and sunset review commissions that would analyze proposed and existing occupational licenses to see if they are needed, or if they are too restrictive, and we think it is a good proposal that is long overdue. Friday, February 3, 2017 Some might consider our reporting of an affair between two Oneida County sheriff’s department officers to be a bit tawdry, but what’s tawdry is not the reporting but the behavior.
Oneida County
The Lakeland Times filed this week an open-meetings complaint against an Oneida County committee for a closed session the paper alleges violated the law multiple times. Friday, December 9, 2016 County officials plan to file a written complaint related to the conduct of a detective sergeant “in the near future,” Oneida County Corporation Counsel Brian Desmond told the county’s law enforcement grievance committee Dec. 16. Friday, December 23, 2016 The Oneida County Forestry Committee held a special meeting Dec. 14 to discuss a land use contract with Brazilian financial company BTG Pactual that must be signed in order for snowmobile enthusiasts to access a number of trails on the western side of the county.