Nate Lindell

 Nate Lindell has become a dedicated Justice advocate and patient educator of folks like me. He is another OLD Law prisoner, in since 1999 and eligible for parole for decades but kept in thru conflicting rules, misinformation, and fear of you, the public. We all must embrace the idea: PEOPLE DO CHANGE. They are NOT their crime. 

litigator- I will link here some of his projects and then introduce and link them to the issue they are addressing . This man has many suits going that would help all-

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Nate Lindell 303724 SCI

Post 824- Open records request for crucial information like complaints against staff and camera coverage of abuse by staff  is always difficult to obtain and ends up being very expensive. Here Nate is addressing the difficulty prisoners and their advocate friend have by sharing a lawsuit  that breaks the deadlock - below he explains and below that I will link the actual lawsuit . 

HANIEL LINDELL (303724)

Hi Peg,

     Of course you and incarcerated persons can use that Brief that I emailed you to challenge any of the too-many rules that WDOC staff are constantly concocting. Derek DeGroot here (an excellent litigator) just used it to end a rule that SCI concocted that banned use of tape and staples.

    Below is a fuller explanation of where my case is at, the one about Open Records. (Rest assured tat all of the litigators at my prison ave access to what was filed in the case, although some have no need for it.) Please share it with Tim and other litigators. Just awaiting the judge's decision....it is time that you and others start requesting video footage under §19.35; if its denied, file Mandamus, let me litigate it, get your costs and punitive damages -easy peasy, get 'em for being greasy#

 

      In Dane County Circuit court Case #24-CV-1066 State ex rel Lindell v. Reese, the WDOC has argued that it denies all Open Records requests for body-cam footage based on a presumption that release of such footage would threaten security. The WDOC is also claiming that they deny all PREA scoring results, claiming that it could be manipulated by prisoners. In neither case did the WDOC explain how these records actually pose a risk to security in my case, nor is there any statute permitting a blanket denial of these types of records, meaning that the attempt by the WDOC to deny these records is clearly illegal, as our state court of appeals and supreme court have repeatedly ruled.

     The legal authority for my arguments is provide in the Brief that I filed responding to A.A.G. Sandra L. Tarver's Motion to Quash the Writ. We had oral arguments on 14 August, in front of judge Everett D. Mitchell, and are awaiting his written decision. I expect that Judge Mitchell will declare the WDOC's blanket ban on releasing video footage a violation of Wisconsin's Open Rec

 

link to text Behind petition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1Ov8DBPkk_HiG1JFFuQwqnWKHYKsPEP/view?usp=sharing