The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Wis. Const. art. VII, § 3
- Issued
- 2021-05-21 May 21, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-21
- End
- Not terminated during the period; in force through Q3 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- May 21, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all circuit and municipal courts
- chief judges
- Functions reached
- CT courts county by county through Q3 2021
- MASK where counties continued it
- Collection
- Wisconsin WI
Operative words
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, the Court no longer requires that personal masking, social distancing, and sanitizing court facilities be part of any plan for circuit court and municipal court proceedings approved by the chief judge of the applicable judicial district. Instead, circuit courts and municipal courts, with the approval of the applicable chief judge, shall make county-wide decisions about what is in the best interest of circuit court and municipal court operations, respectively. This includes deciding whether or not to continue to require masking, social distancing, and sanitizing court facilities on a county by county basis.
Enforcement
Supreme Court administrative order
Notes
Ziegler, C.J., concurring in part: 'the court still requires one final step of one COVID-19 order--obtaining chief judge approval.' Q3 2021 court conditions in Wisconsin were set county by county under this order.