Bills seeking to tighten National Guard sexual assault reporting in Wisconsin receive hearing

A package of bills seeking to tighten sexual assault reporting and enforcement in the National Guard received a public hearing Wednesday, four years after an investigation found a litany of failings in how the Guard handled sexual assault and harassment allegations between 2009 and 2019. The bills were produced by a study committee of legislators, Guard members, veterans and advocates in response to a scathing 2019 report by the National Guard Bureau's Office of Complex Investigations, which found the Guard's policies and procedures for handling allegations of sexual misconduct are...