New UW-Madison chancellor seeks common ground with GOP and Milwaukee to enforce curfew

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Attacked by GOP, incoming UW-Madison chancellor excited to seek common ground

  • In Mnookin's first public remarks since being named the next UW-Madison chancellor on Monday, she tried presenting herself as ready for the rough-and-tumble of Republican-dominated politics, which she hasn't faced in her seven years leading the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mnookin told reporters Tuesday that she is excited to meet people, both on campus and in the Capitol, over beer or cheese curds and work to find common ground about how to move Wisconsin forward.

  • Some Republicans, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, of Rochester, have painted Mnookin as a leftist “woke radical” who has donated to Democratic politicians and supports critical race theory.

  • Mnookin said she'd love to talk about the “different definitions and swirling ideas" surrounding critical race theory, a complex academic framework to understand system racism that is typically taught in law schools. "There are a lot of different perspectives on it and it’s become something that when people engage, I’m not even sure they’re talking about the same thing," she said, noting a distinction between the critical race theory taught by legal scholars and broader public discussions about how race and its role in American history should be taught to K-12 classrooms.

Police will begin enforcing city's curfew ordinance for minors as first charges are filed in Friday's shootings

  • Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Chief Jeffrey Norman announced Tuesday that police will step up citywide enforcement of the city’s curfew for minors in the wake of downtown shootings that injured 21 people, including two minors.

  • The announcements came hours after prosecutors filed the first charges – focusing on gun possession and bail jumping – related to Friday's shootings. Although none of those arrested were minors, Norman said officials decided to enforce the curfew as a form of protection. Minors have been increasingly caught up in the city’s historic violent crime over the last two and a half years.

  • Norman said the enforcement will extend to parents of children violating the curfew as well. The city’s curfew ordinance prohibits anyone 17 and younger to congregate in public spaces during overnight hours, starting at either 10 or 11 p.m. and lasting until 5 a.m., depending on the day of the week and time of year. Fines can range from $100 to $200 and can be extended to minors themselves, along with parents and business owners. Exceptions are made for minors in the company of a parent or guardian

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