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Department Of Human Services

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Judge Tells State to Quickly Find Home for Sex Offender

Convicted sex offender Michael Fink is still going to be released under strict supervision, but finding a new location for him should be the DHS's highest priority, according to Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz.

Racine County Circuit Court Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz told state Department of Health Services officials Thursday to make finding a new placement for convicted sex offender Michael Fink one of their highest priorities. The status hearing was scheduled after the state Attorney General's office and DHS officials discovered that Fink's proposed residence at 918 Lathrop Avenue was only a block or two away from one of his victims. Fink was to have been released from Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center in Mauston into a supervised release program by Friday, but that has been put on hold until a new home for him is found. Fink was first convicted of second degree sexual assault in 1987 for attacking a 15-year-old girl. He spent time in prison for…

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Sex Offender Placement Moved Because It's Too Close to Victim

C. Sanders

8:17 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013

Put him in a rowboat in high seas in the middle of the Pacific. End of story.   more ›

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Rep. Cory Mason Calls for Hearing Over Dismantling Health Care

Together with Rep. Tamara Grigsby, Mason wants to examine the Department of Health Services plans to cut public healthcare in Wisconsin.

Representatives Cory Mason (D-Racine) and Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) want the Joint Committee on Finance to convene an immediate hearing to fully explore how the Department of Human Services plans to trim $550 million from the public healthcare budget. After weeks of releasing bits and pieces of the department's plan to save money on public healthcare, DHS just on Mon., Oct. 31, released its full, 300-page document. “This plan is filled with even more of the bad choices Republicans have been making all year,” said Mason in a written statement. “The Walker Administration has made a very conscious choice to deny health care to tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents to pay for tax breaks to special interests and corporations." Grisby …

GearHead

8:24 pm on Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Where was Mason when Doyle was cutting health care, aid to cities, aid to schools, raiding the patient reimbursement and highway funds, spending the stimulus on budget holes instead of "shovel ready jobs", and raising state taxes 3 billion dollars - while Mason was in power? Now that he is out of power (thank Heaven) he should be ignored while the adults handle the tough decisions he punted on.   more ›

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