There will be reforms to John Doe

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Watchdog.org:

MADISON, Wis. — Changes are coming to Wisconsin’s “John Doe” law and what many conservatives see as the partisan regulatory agency that spurred secret investigations into dozens of conservative groups, according to Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos.

 

“Yes, we are going to make those changes period,” the Rochester Republican said Wednesday during a celebratory press conference with reporters a day after huge GOP wins in Wisconsin, and nationally.

 

Vos, addressing the press with state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who co-chairs the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee, touched on some of the majority party’s priorities in the next session, including programs to spur job creation and education reforms.

 

REFORMING DOE: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, on Wednesday pledged the Republican-controlled Legislature will reform Wisconsin’s John Doe law and the state Government Accountability Board.

 

On that agenda, reforming Wisconsin’s unique John Doe law, which Vos said has given even well-meaning district attorneys the opportunity to conduct “a witch hunt.”

“That’s not good for our democracy. That’s not good for our judicial system,” the speaker said. “… Now we see even the way the (John Doe-related) documents were released has become a political process.”

“If the goal is to take the investigation outside the political process, if anything our law is broken and needs to be fixed,” Vos added.