Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1066 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1066
5	5	February 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives STUBBS, SPIROS, BARE, CONLEY,
6	6	DITTRICH, GUNDRUM, JACOBSON, JOERS, MAXEY, MOORE OMOKUNDE, NOVAK,
7	7	O'CONNOR, ORTIZ-VELEZ, RATCLIFF, SINICKI, SUMMERFIELD, MELOTIK, EDMING,
8	8	MURSAU, SNYDER, GOEBEN, SCHRAA and S. JOHNSON, cosponsored by Senators
9	9	JAMES, L. JOHNSON, SMITH, WIRCH, LARSON, SPREITZER, AGARD and CARPENTER.
10	10	Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to renumber and amend 175.51 (1m) (a); to amend 165.785 (2m) (a)
13	13	1. and 2., 165.785 (2m) (b), 175.51 (title) and 175.51 (1m) (b); and to create
14	14	175.51 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes; relating to: expanding alerts for missing
15	15	adults to include certain missing children.
16	16	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
17	17	The Department of Justice currently administers several alert systems, under
18	18	which DOJ works with law enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and others to
19	19	disseminate information regarding certain cases involving endangered children,
20	20	missing adults at risk, and veterans at risk. These alerts are commonly known
21	21	respectively as Amber Alerts, Silver Alerts, or Green Alerts.
22	22	Under current law, the Silver Alert applies to a missing person who is at least
23	23	18 if the person has a developmental disability or suffers from dementia, or who
24	24	could, without access to medication, suffer from cognitive impairment that would
25	25	likely render the adult incapable of getting to a familiar location alone. This bill
26	26	expands the Silver Alert to include children if the situation is not covered by the
27	27	Amber Alert, which requires a reasonable belief by law enforcement that the child
28	28	was abducted and is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death and that
29	29	if sufficient information is shared with the public, the alert will assist in finding the
30	30	child. Under this bill, a Silver Alert could be issued for a missing person under 18
31	31	to whom an Amber Alert does not apply if the person is believed to be incapable of
32	32	returning home without assistance due to a physical or mental condition or disability
33	33	or if the person is under 10.
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40	40	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
41	41	printed as an appendix to this bill.
42	42	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
43	43	enact as follows:
44	44	SECTION 1. 165.785 (2m) (a) 1. and 2. of the statutes are amended to read:
45	45	165.785 (2m) (a) 1. The department shall provide a form for reports of missing
46	46	adults persons at risk under s. 175.51 (1m) and missing veterans at risk under s.
47	47	175.51 (1v) that law enforcement agencies can access through the integrated crime
48	48	alert network.
49	49	2. The department shall train law enforcement officers on identifying reports
50	50	of adults persons at risk that are appropriate for dissemination under sub. (1) (b) 2.,
51	51	using the form provided under subd. 1., and accessing the network to disseminate
52	52	the report.
53	53	SECTION 2. 165.785 (2m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
54	54	165.785 (2m) (b) The department shall work directly with persons on the list
55	55	maintained under par. (c) and with government agencies, broadcasters, and public
56	56	and private organizations with missions focused on adults persons or veterans at
57	57	risk to develop criteria for law enforcement officers to use to identify reports of
58	58	missing adults persons or veterans at risk that are appropriate to disseminate under
59	59	s. 175.51 (1m) or (1v), to determine the most effective methods and guidelines for the
60	60	persons on the list maintained under par. (c) to use to broadcast or make public
61	61	reports of missing adults persons or veterans at risk, and to receive feedback on the
62	62	forms provided under par. (a) 1. and on the list maintained under par. (c).
63	63	SECTION 3. 175.51 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
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88	88	175.51 (title) Reports of missing adults persons and veterans at risk
89	89	and of hit-and-run incidents.
90	90	SECTION 4. 175.51 (1m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 175.51 (1m) (a) (intro.)
91	91	and amended to read:
92	92	175.51 (1m) (a) (intro.) In this subsection, “adult “person at risk" means an one
93	93	of the following:
94	94	1. An adult who has a developmental disability, who suffers from Alzheimer's
95	95	disease or dementia, or who suffers from or could, without access to medication,
96	96	suffer from cognitive impairment if the impairment would likely render the adult
97	97	incapable of getting to a familiar location without assistance.
98	98	SECTION 5. 175.51 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
99	99	175.51 (1m) (a) 2. A person who has not attained the age of 18 years, whose
100	100	location is unknown, and whose situation does not qualify for another alert and the
101	101	person is believed to be incapable of returning home without assistance due to a
102	102	physical or mental condition or disability or the person has not attained the age of
103	103	10 years.
104	104	SECTION 6. 175.51 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
105	105	175.51 (1m) (b) If a law enforcement agency receives a report of a missing adult
106	106	person at risk, the law enforcement agency shall use the form under s. 165.785 (2m)
107	107	(a) 1. to disseminate the report using the integrated crime alert network.
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