News 12.21.17
21 December 2017 News
The Fond du Lac County Emergency Management director says a nationwide public safety broadband network will help improve how first responders communicate locally and across the state. On Friday Governor Scott Walker agreed for the state to joint the First Responders Network Authority or FirstNet. Fond du lac County Emergency Management director Bobbie Hicken says the new partnership provides secure and robust broadband access for first responders and public safety personnel. Hicken says the big advantage to First Net will be the advanced technology. She says First Net will give first responders the tools necessary to communicate, in the event of a tornado for example.
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Fond du Lac County hires a firm for architectural and engineering services for construction of a new highway garage. At their meeting Tuesday night the county board approved a resolution to hire Excel Engineering. County executive Al Buechel says construction on the new garage is expected to begin sometime after Labor Day next fall. The new garage will be located on property off Highway 151 near Hickory Street. Buechel says the old garage on Dixie Street is no longer meeting the needs of the Department. He says the current garage is also a safety concern.
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A Wisconsin man who stole a cache of firearms from a gun shop and sent a rambling anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Joseph Jakubowski was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge William Conley. Jakubowski asked the judge to either free him or execute him, saying in a profanity-laced back and forth that he rejected rules and the law. Jakubowski also said if he were let out, he would do it again. Jakubowski was convicted in September of two weapons charges stemming from the April 4 theft. The theft from a gun store in Janesville set off a 10-day manhunt. The store owner told the judge Wednesday he wanted 14 firearms that are still missing to be returned, but Jakubowski said that would not happen.
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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says a Republican-backed bill to allow the carrying of concealed weapons without a permit is unlikely to pass the Legislature next year. Vos said Wednesday that the measure is likely doomed because “there’s not a big hue and cry” to pass it. He says voters are more concerned about other issues, like jobs, economic development and how to pay for roads. Vos says he hasn’t had people ask him in the grocery store “when are we going to get that done?” The proposal has cleared a Senate committee but has not been taken up by either chamber yet. Backers say the measure protects the Constitutional right to bear arms, while opponents say taking away licensing requirements makes no sense.
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