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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1181
March 22, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives JACOBSON, SPIROS, RATCLIFF,
CONLEY, C. ANDERSON, ORTIZ-VELEZ, SUBECK and STUBBS, cosponsored by
Senators JAMES and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
AN ACT to create 20.455 (2) (cs) and 165.985 of the statutes; relating to: law
enforcement agency third-party accreditation award program and making an
appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Justice to establish an award program that
provides awards on a first-come, first-served basis to law enforcement agencies that
have gone through an approved third-party accreditation process. Under the bill,
there are two tiers of award funding available: the higher tier of funding provides
$25,000 to law enforcement agencies that have received full state or national
accreditation and the lower tier of funding provides $8,000 to law enforcement
agencies that have received core or partial state or national accreditation. Under the
bill, a law enforcement agency may receive an award once every three years.
The bill provides $792,200 in the 2023-24 fiscal year and $1,042,200 in the
2024-25 fiscal year for this purpose and increases the authorized full-time
equivalent positions for DOJ by one position to administer the award program
created in the bill.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
2023-24 2024-25
20.455 Justice, department of
(2) LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES
(cs)Law enforcement agency 3rd-
party accreditation award pro
gram GPR A 792,200 1,042,200
SECTION 2. 20.455 (2) (cs) of the statutes is created to read:
20.455 (2) (cs) Law enforcement agency 3rd-party accreditation award
program. The amounts in the schedule to provide awards to Wisconsin law
enforcement agencies under s. 165.985 (2).
SECTION 3. 165.985 of the statutes is created to read:
165.985 Law enforcement agency 3rd-party accreditation award
program. (1) In this section:
(a) “Third-party accreditation” means a process in which a professional
accreditation entity that has been approved by the department of justice under sub.
(5) conducts an independent review and evaluation of law enforcement agency
operations and compliance with prescribed standards.
(b) “Wisconsin law enforcement agency" means a governmental unit of one or
more persons employed full time by this state or a political subdivision of this state
for the purpose of preventing and detecting crime and enforcing state laws or local
ordinances, employees of which unit are authorized to make arrests for crimes while
acting within the scope of their authority.
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(2) From the appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (cs), the department of justice
shall provide awards to Wisconsin law enforcement agencies to fund law
enforcement agency 3rd-party accreditation. The department of justice may issue
an award under this subsection to a Wisconsin law enforcement agency after the
Wisconsin law enforcement agency has successfully completed an accreditation or
reaccreditation process. The department of justice shall issue awards under this
subsection in the order in which award applications are received. The department
of justice may establish additional criteria and procedures for the distribution of
awards under this subsection. Notwithstanding s. 227.10 (1), the department of
justice need not promulgate the criteria and procedures as rules under ch. 227.
(3) Awards under sub. (2) shall be in the following amounts:
(a) For a Wisconsin law enforcement agency that is fully accredited as meeting
state or national law enforcement standards, $25,000.
(b) For a Wisconsin law enforcement agency that is core accredited or partially
accredited as meeting state or national law enforcement standards, $8,000.
(4) A Wisconsin law enforcement agency may receive an award under sub. (2)
once every 3 years, after successful completion of the accreditation or reaccreditation
process.
(5) The department of justice shall identify and publish a list of approved
professional accreditation entities.
SECTION 4.0Fiscal changes.
(1) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 3RD-PARTY ACCREDITATION AWARD PROGRAM
ADMINISTRATION. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the
department of justice under s. 20.455 (2) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year
2023-24 is increased by $127,200 to increase the authorized FTE positions for the
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department by 1.0 GPR position to administer the law enforcement 3rd-party
accreditation award program. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the
appropriation to the department of justice under s. 20.455 (2) (a), the dollar amount
for fiscal year 2024-25 is increased by $127,200 to provide funding for the position
authorized under this subsection.
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