Court : Wisconsin Cities Can Tell City Workers Where to Live

Courthouse News reports:

Wisconsin cities can again require their employees to live within their borders, the appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Writing for the state appellate panel Presiding Judge Patricia Curley said that a Republican-backed state statute "gutting" Milwaukee's residency requirement was not an issue of statewide concern, as the Milwaukee Police Association successfully argued in circuit court.
"Neither the Police Association nor the trial court point to any facts supporting this claim; the Police Association merely argues on appeal that the legislature can do what it wants," Curley writes. "We disagree."
The lawsuit came about after Milwaukee officials directed city employees to disregard a provision of the 2013-15 state budget that abolished residency requirements, a position the city eventually backed off after the suit was commenced.
The state law allowed cities to require that emergency and public safety personnel, such as firefighters and police officers, live within 15 minutes of their city of employment.

The powers that be in Milwaukee can't handle the basic civil right to live where you want.