58s bill walsh is here with more details. Bill . 3 the focus of the audit is the private contractor that provides medical care at the jail and the house of correction, that company, Armor Correctional Health services is based in florida. County board chair Theodore Lipscomb told cbs 58 news he requested the audit november first, and received the green light the very next day this followed reports of poor care and staffing issues at the facilities. Now obviously the at have gotten a lot of attention, but the Comptrollers Office tells us the audit will . Not . Look into those cases. Rather it will focus on the overall management of the jailand specific issues like wages, staffing and recordkeeping. The jail is run by the sheriffs office. The correction facility is operated by milwaukee county. 3 the office says if needed, they will bring in outside experts for second opinions. The audit is scheduled to begin next month. Over after a teacher is sentenced for having sex with a teenager. Te
Suspended. Reporter in part, the federal lawsuit accuses water street brewery of violating federal and state minimum wage and overtime laws. So we could work a 50 hour week, but only but on paper it only looked like 42 hours. Reporter its not just being underpaid for overtime. Shes also accusing them of not paying correct minimum wage. In wisconsin, law allows restaurants to pay servers 2. 33 per hour, plus tips. He plus tips earned dont add up to at least 7. 25 an hour, the employer must make up the difference. Angela says she wants the lawsuit to help other workers,. Im doing it to create a fairness with all the serving staff. Reporter the restaurants director of operations wouldnt he said we vigorously denied them, and will be eager to defend them. Saying of angela and the complaint, he said they have some of their facts wrong. Terry sater, wisn 12 news. Kathy you can read the entire lawsuit by clicking on this story on the 12 news app and on wisn. Com. Big story coverage tonight, t
Time and money. I say wait to day 12. Thats what i am saying. We just started. So wrapping up here. In Waukesha County it is a different story. They spent most of the day checking the validity of absentee ballots. They are just about to start counting. They plan to work there until midnight. Were live in Milwaukee County, Ben Handelman fox 6 news. Brad thanks ben counties like ozaukee and washington have opted to handcount the ballots. The Washington County clerk argues its actually faster. She says in the past they only used one machine for recounting which she believes would have brenda says if we were using one machine which we have done in the past, it would have taken over 130 hours to feed them all through and as you can see i have two rooms of tabulators we can go through a whole municipality a whole reporting unit with all the tabulators much quicker than going through the machine. She says she could have requested more machines but believes reprogramming the database and memor
Time and money. I say wait to day 12. Thats what i am saying. We just started. So wrapping up here. In Waukesha County it is a different story. They spent most of the day checking the validity of absentee ballots. They are just about to start counting. They plan to work there until midnight. Were live in Milwaukee County, Ben Handelman fox 6 news. Brad thanks ben counties like ozaukee and washington have opted to handcount the ballots. The Washington County clerk argues its actually faster. She says in the past they only used one machine for recounting which she believes would have brenda says if we were using one machine which we have done in the past, it would have taken over 130 hours to feed them all through and as you can see i have two rooms of tabulators we can go through a whole municipality a whole reporting unit with all the tabulators much quicker than going through the machine. She says she could have requested more machines but believes reprogramming the database and memor
Anchor adlibs traffic red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays the counting continues today ballots go under the microscope for the second straight day. And the clock is ticking. For Election Officials to get the job done. We have Team Coverage this morning. Angelica is in the newsroom following the late night count going on in waukehsa county. But first we start with Deandra Corinthios live from the Milwaukee Election Commission warehouse where things will pick back up in an hour. Ballot counting begins at 8 am 8 absentee ballots in Milwaukee County had thursday elections commissioners decided to publicly test only two of the 30 Voting Machines being used in the recount. But a supporter of Green Party Candidate jill stein objected. Milwaukee county commissioners then decided to test all 30. One of them was broken, and had to be fixed thats why they didnt start counting votes until three hours past the original start time. The fir