I’ve written before about the Milwaukee Mental Health Complex, part of that county’s Behavioral Health Division. That facility has been a place of patient abuse and professional misconduct. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Milwaukee County won’t release study on mental facility: Auditor says information may aid probe into troubled complex. Steve Shultze of the…

The Associated Press reports that a Third Woman Says DA Kratz Harassed Her: Ruskiewicz said she went to Kratz in 2008 asking for his support for her pardon application and career advice before she entered law school. She said Kratz agreed to support her and they met in his office, where he asked her an…

Readers may recall a post from July about the excessive municipal compensation of officials in Bell, California, an impoverished town where officials helped themselves to huge salaries. See, Excessive Public Compensation in Bell, California (Lessons for the Rest of America). Those officials now face more than public condemnation and forced resignations, as the AP reports…

Governor Doyle, doing the right thing, announced that he will promptly begin the removal process of Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz. (I’ve criticized Doyle on economic issues, but is doing the right thing, commendably in this matter, of victims’ rights and prosecutorial misconduct.) Consider a second instance of misconduct, as reported in the story…

I’ve posted before about the Calumet County District Attorney, Ken Kratz, who sent a series of vulgar, propositioning text messages to a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend on a felony charge. Kratz should never have sent the messages, and should have resigned immediately after sending the first one. There are some…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has published an editorial about Ken Kratz, the lying and victim-abusing district attorney of Calumet County. Kratz sent dozens of vulgar, creepy text messages to a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her former boyfriend for assaulting her. I wrote about Kratz’s obvious misconduct yesterday. See, Official’s Misconduct: Calumet County…

Less than a day after his original story, the AP‘s Ryan Foley follows up, in E-mails show DA tried to keep ‘sexting’ quiet to show that District Attorney Ken Kratz tried to keep his conduct hidden from state officials, and lied to Foley about his willingness to accept responsibility for his conduct. (For my original…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an editorial entitled, Still Not Enough that wisely concludes that Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s actions have been inadequate, in response to assault, neglect, and patient deaths at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex: The demotion of John Chianelli, the man in charge of Milwaukee County’s Mental Health Complex, doesn’t…

And yet, so much more to be done… Steve Schultze and Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel write that Milwaukee County officials said late Wednesday that John Chianelli, who oversees the troubled Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, would be leaving that post Monday. The announcement followed growing criticism of Chianelli in the wake of…

One need wait no more than a few hours to hear yet worse news about John Chianelli’s tenure as administrator of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Chianelli let [his] professional license lapse: “State records show that the county official let his occupational therapy license

There’s a new story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about Milwaukee’s troubled Mental Health Complex, entitled, Assault suspect at mental facility competent for trial, judge says. It’s the sub-heading that tells how poorly Behavioral Health Division administrator and others have responded to allegations of assault, neglect, and starvation of patients: “Meanwhile, investigators of the troubled…

Dr. John Chianelli’s leadership of Milwaukee County’s Behavioral Health Division and its Mental health Complex has been one of failure. He’s advocated and defended immoral policies, policies that have led to assault, neglect, and death. He’s unworthy of a public (or private) position, and should have been fired months ago. In yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,…