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Committee backs ordinance requiring identifying info from outside law-enforcement agencies
Summary
The committee recommended passage of a substitute ordinance that would require law-enforcement officers acting in Milwaukee to identify their agency and not conceal identity, with narrow exceptions; the city attorney advised the substitute appears legally defensible but warned enforceability against federal officers may be limited by federal immunity.
Milwaukee ' The Public Safety and Health Committee voted to recommend a substitute ordinance that would require any law-enforcement officer acting in the city to clearly identify the agency and individual, prohibit face coverings that obscure identity, and require agency-marked vehicles when acting in official capacity, subject to defined exceptions for undercover work and other narrowly described circumstances.
Sponsor Alderman Brower framed the ordinance as a response to reports of masked, armed federal agents operating in unmarked vehicles. "What this ordinance attempts to do is to require that any law enforcement,…
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