RACINE, Wis. — John Tate II, the former head of the Wisconsin Parole Commission who was hired to be — and days later turned down the job as — Madison’s first-ever independent police monitor, has instead taken a job as Racine’s violence prevention manager.
City officials in Racine announced Tate’s hire Wednesday, one day after Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board said Tate had withdrawn his acceptance of the police monitor position.
Tate will step down from his role on Racine’s city council to take the newly-created violence prevention manager job, according to a post on the city’s Facebook page. In the new role, Tate will be tasked with “leading a public health approach” to reducing youth violence and overseeing the city’s efforts to create a plan for positive youth development and violence prevention.
Madison officials had announced Tate’s hire last Monday; this week, the Police Civilian Oversight Board said it had learned Tate would not be taking the job and instead accepting another opportunity.
Tate resigned from his position as chairman of the Wisconsin Parole Commission earlier this year following a controversial decision to grant parole to a man convicted of killing his wife in the late 1990s. Following backlash, Tate, at the request of Gov. Tony Evers, rescinded the man’s parole.
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