Days after Toney slams Kaul for backlog in Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) referrals and demands investigation into delays, he filed a public records request regarding the ICAC Commander’s departure.
MADISON, Wis. – Today, Fond du Lac County District Attorney and law enforcement’s choice for Attorney General, Eric Toney, filed a public records request after receiving information that the ICAC Task Force Commander had recently left her post at the Department of Justice.
Toney released the following statement:
“Today, after being informed by multiple sources that the ICAC Task Force Commander, Dana Miller, recently departed the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) at Kaul’s DOJ, I filed an open records request asking for documentation of Miller’s departure.“Based on information I’ve received, as recent as September of this year, Josh Kaul failed to provide proper resources to DCI resulting in a backlog of over 1,000 ICAC referrals – leaving child predators free to roam our streets and putting children at risk. Now, it appears an important member of the ICAC Task Force, the ICAC Task Force Commander, Dana Miller, who supervised ICAC operations, has departed from the DOJ. The backlog of ICAC referrals is another example of Josh Kaul’s failed leadership and the apparent dysfunction Kaul has created at the Department of Justice. Wisconsin families and our children cannot afford another four years of Kaul’s mismanagement.”
ICAC referrals include child predators who:
– Possess child pornography
– Obtain nude photos of children over the internet; and
– Coerce children to meet them for the commission of heinous and deviant sexual crimes.
Here is the full text of the public records request:
October 18, 2022
Attn: Paul Ferguson
Wisconsin Department of Justice
P.O. Box 7857
Madison, WI 53707
Via email: fergusonpm@doj.state.wi.us
RE: Public Records Request
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request for records kept by your office in accordance with Wisconsin Public Records Law (Wis. Stats. §§ 19.31-39). Pursuant to state law, I request the following:Any record or document regarding or pertaining to the departure of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commander Dana Miller, to include any letter of termination and/or letter of resignation.I kindly request this information in electronic format when possible. If there are fees associated with obtaining these records, please notify me by email at info@erictoney.com.
If you intend to deny my request in whole or in part, the law requires you to do so in writing and state what part of the law you believe justifies your refusal to release the records. Wis. Stat. § 19.35(4)(a).
If you are not the records custodian for this information, please forward this request to the appropriate person.
Thank you for your prompt attention to my request.
Kind Regards,
Eric J. Toney
