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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 834
January 6, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
O'Connor
,
Billings
,
Mursau
,
Kreibich
,
Gundrum
,
Dittrich
,
Sinicki
,
DeSanto
,
Ortiz-Velez
,
Emerson
,
Behnke
,
Miresse
,
Armstrong
,
Goodwin
,
McCarville
and
Subeck
, cosponsored by Senator
James
. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
AB834,1,4
1
An Act
to create
940.302 (4), 948.051 (4), 950.04 (1v) (eg) and 950.04 (2w) (fg)
2
of the statutes;
relating to:
courtroom supports for and sealing the
3
identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human
4
trafficking crimes.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law provides certain additional rights and protections to victims and witnesses during their involvement with the criminal justice or juvenile justice system.
This bill provides that child victims or child witnesses of human trafficking crimes must be provided any courtroom supports that the court finds necessary to support the health, safety, or liberty of the child and determines are in the interest of justice.
The bill also provides that in any criminal proceeding for a human trafficking violation or civil action for injury due to human trafficking, a child victim’s or child witness’s identifying information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the public unless the court orders the disclosure to be made after a hearing in which the court takes into consideration the health, safety, and liberty of the child and determines that the disclosure is in the interest of justice.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB834,1
1
Section
1
.
940.302 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
AB834,2,7
2
940.302
(4)
In any criminal proceeding for a violation of sub. (2) or civil action
3
under sub. (3), the identifying information of a child victim or child witness shall be
4
sealed and may not be disclosed to the public unless the court orders the disclosure
5
to be made after a hearing in which the court takes into consideration the health,
6
safety, and liberty of the child and determines that the disclosure is in the interest
7
of justice.
AB834,2
8
Section
2
.
948.051 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
AB834,2,14
9
948.051
(4)
In any criminal proceeding for a violation of sub. (1) or (2) or civil
10
action under sub. (3), the identifying information of a child victim or child witness
11
shall be sealed and may not be disclosed to the public unless the court orders the
12
disclosure to be made after a hearing in which the court takes into consideration
13
the health, safety, and liberty of the child and determines that the disclosure is in
14
the interest of justice.
AB834,3
15
Section
3
.
950.04 (1v) (eg) of the statutes is created to read:
AB834,2,19
16
950.04
(1v)
(eg) If the victim is a child, in any criminal proceeding for a
17
violation of s. 940.302 or 948.051, to be provided any courtroom supports that the
18
court finds necessary to support the health, safety, or liberty of the child and
19
determines are in the interest of justice.
AB834,4
20
Section
4
.
950.04 (2w) (fg) of the statutes is created to read:
AB834,3,4
1
950.04
(2w)
(fg) If the witness is a child, in any criminal proceeding for a
2
violation of s. 940.302 or 948.051, to be provided any courtroom supports that the
3
court finds necessary to support the health, safety, or liberty of the child and
4
determines are in the interest of justice.
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