Someone carved this message into the lawn of this Wheatland house where the state would like to place a sex offender on supervised release. Photo taken Sunday afternoon.
A Kenosha County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the state from renting a Wheatland home for the placement of a sex offender there.
The town of Wheatland had sought the order granted by Judge David Bastianelli at a hearing in Kenosha.
The case relates to the state’s proposed placement of Michael McGee of Racine County in a Wheatland house in the 32200 block of Highway 50 starting May 20. McGee is part of the state Department of Health Services Supervised Release program. The state had not been able to find a residence for McGee in Racine County and was ordered by a Racine County judge to look in Kenosha County. The state contacted the landlord of the Highway 50 home because they had used it for sex offenders before and found it was available.
But local government and law enforcement officials mobilized to block the placement, in part because a one year old lives next door to the subject property.
Another hearing will be held in Racine on Wednesday that will also deal with the case.
Note: We expect to have more coverage of Tuesday’s hearing. Check back. — DH
