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The state might start reimbursing Allouez for the cost of police calls to the Green Bay prison.
Majority Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee are proposing to close a loophole in the law.
Allouez pays the Brown County Sheriff’s Department to provide police services, and 40 percent of calls in the village are for investigations at the prison.
Republican Sen. Rob Cowles of Allouez says there are a lot of visits, because it’s a difficult and unsafe prison. He says deputies make more trips there than other facilities around the state.
The state is already reimbursing all of the other communities that have state prisons. Cowles says Allouez hasn’t been, because the village is the only one that contracts police services from another department.
The change would give the village about $60,000 a year.
