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Legislation/Policy/Procedure

Title: State Gaming Appropriations and Policing Grants
Parties: State of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Indian Tribes
Date enacted/published: 1999

Description:

In response to new obligations created by Public Law 280, in 1995 the Wisconsin Legislature enacted funding support for counties with law enforcement obligations on reservations within their boundaries. Each qualifying county was allocated $2,500 per year. The counties applied for the funds and were required to show need. From 1955 to 1985, the counties were eligible for a maximum of $2,500. During the 1980s, maximum funding was increased to $7,500. Two pilot programs were funded to support cooperative law enforcement relations between counties and tribes.

In 1999, Wisconsin Act 9 shifted funding for the cooperative county-tribal law enforcement program to tribal gaming revenues. Act 9 also created funding for two new programs: the county law enforcement and tribal law enforcement assistants programs. The shift to gaming revenues allowed the state government to reallocate previous funding streams based on penalty assessments and general program funding. The intended use of tribal gaming revenue is specified in the gaming compacts with individual tribes. Several tribes requested tribal law enforcement as a target for redistribution of gaming revenues. The governor developed a tribal law enforcement program that was available to any tribe or band in the state, not just the tribes that specified tribal law enforcement funding in their gaming compacts.

For additional information contact:
Wisconsin Department of Justice
(608) 266-1221
leg.council@legis.state.wi.us

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