The UW-Madison student who was arrested for recording other students in a residence hall bathroom will be facing adjusted charges.
Braden Berndt, 19, was arrested in February and charged with three felony counts of capturing an intimate representation and three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct.
UW-Madison Police Department officers cited three people after a high-powered laser was pointed at buildings, roads and a police officer on Wednesday.
The department explained a high-powered laser can be significantly stronger than a typical laser used during a presentation, which poses major safety risks to drivers and law enforcement.
UWPD said the laser briefly affected the officer’s vision.
UWPD urged people to never aim a laser at others.
The Madison Police Department said a shooting near UW’s campus on Saturday is now considered to be accidental.
Police responded to Langdon Street, near N Carroll Street, around 3:30 a.m. after they heard someone had been shot in the arm. When they got there, they found a 16-year-old with a gunshot wound to his forearm.
The University of Wisconsin notified students in an email Wednesday afternoon that there had been incidents of fondling in an unknown academic building.
The incidents were reported to UW through a report from a Campus Security Authority — which the university defines as either a member of UW Police Department, individuals responsible for campus security, certain members of administration or housing and other departments on campus that handle criminal reports.
A Flock Safety camera installed near Memorial Union sparked confusion between the City of Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Madison over who owns the pole supporting the device — and whether the camera complies with city regulations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department’s use of Flock security cameras has sparked privacy concerns among faculty and staff, leading to calls for the surveillance technology to be removed from campus.
UW-Madison police adopted the security cameras in July 2025. The department said the cameras help with investigations by identifying license plates and vehicles, but do not identify faces, people, gender or race. The system captures photos rather than videos.
Academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison approved a resolution Monday opposing the university’s use of license plate reader cameras operated by the company Flock Safety.
The resolution, written by Barrett Elward, Co-President of the United Faculty and Academic Staff Union, raises concerns about privacy and the potential for widespread data collection.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.
A group of UW-Madison faculty and staff is putting pressure on campus police to remove AI-powered license plate-reading surveillance cameras.
UW-Madison installed eight cameras in July 2025 from the Atlanta-based company, Flock Safety. The company operates a network of automated cameras that monitor 24/7 and capture images of the rear of passing cars.
The University of Wisconsin announced Mar. 4 that it created a web page with expanded information and guidance should students or employees encounter someone representing a federal agency in campus facilities or workspaces, according to UW News.
The city of Madison does not operate any Flock cameras; under the city’s “surveillance devices” ordinance, any proposed contract would have to be approved by both the mayor and city council. Both the University of Wisconsin Police Department and Wisconsin State Capitol Police, which have primary jurisdiction on campus and near the Capitol, respectively, have contracts with Flock. The Capitol Police’s four cameras are located around the Capitol Square.
Marc Lovicott, spokesperson for UW police, declined to share the locations of the department’s eight cameras. He says the department automatically shares Flock data with other Wisconsin law enforcement agencies, but will only share data with other state and federal agencies upon request and on a “case-by-case basis.”
Police at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Police Department say a new system of license plate reader cameras is helping investigators identify vehicles connected to crimes on and around campus faster.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is addressing the impact of the ongoing conflict in Iran and the broader Middle East. Students who are studying abroad in the region are being moved to new locations, where the university says they will continue their programs. Their plan aims to ensure the safety and well-being of students and staff.
“The situation is evolving rapidly, and we are closely following developments,” said Fran Vavrus, vice provost and dean of the International Division. Vavrus emphasized the university’s commitment to connecting with both international students in Madison and those studying abroad.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is asking the public to help identify suspects in three separate theft cases that happened on campus.
The UW student arrested last week for recording others in a dorm bathroom has now been accused of taking up to 50 videos of others in Sellery Residence Hall, according to Channel 3000 News.
A man who was accused of throwing rocks at Jewish UW-Madison students pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was referred to a first offender program.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department’s Chief of Police Brent Plisch spoke with University Committee members Monday about the presence of eight Flock Safety cameras on campus, addressing their privacy concerns.
The UW-Madison student who was arrested after recording other students in a residence hall bathroom is charged with three counts of capturing an intimate representation without consent and three counts of disorderly conduct.
Braden Berndt, 19, was arrested after being caught dropping a blue iPhone between two bathroom stalls with the lens face up multiple times to other students, according to the criminal complaint.
A 19-year-old UW-Madison student was arrested Sunday for recording videos of people using the restroom at his residence hall, UW-Madison police said.
A man was arrested after making threats while armed with a gun during an altercation Downtown on Tuesday afternoon, Madison police reported.
At about 1:55 p.m., UW-Madison police were sent to the intersection of West Johnson Street and East Campus Mall after reports of a person threatening another person near a bus stop and arrested a 46-year-old Madison man, police spokesperson Marc Lovicott said in a statement.
In addition to the business closings, a student walkout and rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Library Mall, followed by a march and rally at the Capitol at 3:30 p.m.
She recalled the first time she did a drop-off. “I see a literal ice agent walking around, and he just walks right past me. I’m just not on his radar,” she said. She is white, and had on a red University of Wisconsin T-shirt. “But, yeah, I go up to this apartment, and this mom was on the verge of tears, who’s been at home with her kids in a stuffy apartment for, like, a month, you know?”
Hundreds gathered in negative windchill in solidarity with the city of Minneapolis and rallied for no Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence on UW’s campus at Library Mall, Jan. 27.
Madison Students for a Democratic Society held the rally in response to the presence of ICE operations across the U.S. and ICE agents killing two Minneapolis residents, according to their Instagram.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers want to limit the University of Wisconsin System’s academic and research collaboration with six countries amid concerns over national security and foreign influence in education.
The bill, which passed the Assembly on Jan. 22, prohibits study abroad, dual degree programs and research collaborations with China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Qatar. While there are currently no UW-Madison programs in four of the targeted countries, the university has three study abroad programs in China and one flagship program in Russia.
Local activist groups and faculty members are calling out the University of Wisconsin Police Department and technology company Flock Safety over eight security cameras they say bring privacy and security concerns to campus.
UWPD — who has access to the data through a contract with Flock Safety — said the cameras aid law enforcement in solving crimes and are not used for “surveillance” of the community like some suspect.
Students from UW-Madison filled Library Mall to protest ICE activity across the country and show solidarity with Minneapolis residents on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 in Madison, Wis. The protest, organized by Students for a Democratic Society Madison, intended to “show the campus, the city, the state, and the Trump administration the students will not allow this to continue unobstructed,” according to the organization’s social media.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) will renew calls for university divestment from Israel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and military operations in Venezuela while remaining civil with the university as the organization returns to campus Jan. 15 following a six-month suspension, a member told The Daily Cardinal.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students braved freezing temperatures Tuesday evening to gather on Library Mall, demanding university leaders declare the campus a sanctuary for immigrant students following recent ICE-related deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
our people have been charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that caused more than $10,000 in damage across the UW-Madison campus, university police said.
Four people are charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that caused thousands of dollars in damage across the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus over the past 18 months.
Four people have been charged in connection with a series of graffiti incidents that have happened across the UW-Madison campus over the past year and a half, the university’s police department reported Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison cancelled Friday classes due to freezing weather conditions for the first time since 2019, according to a news release.
The cancellation of all lectures, labs and discussion sections comes after the National Weather Service placed Dane County under an Extreme Cold Warning from midnight to 1 p.m. Friday, with wind chills projected to range from 30 to 40 degrees below zero.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison reported nine hazing violations connected to Greek life between 2021 to 2025 after a new federal law required universities and colleges to publicly report hazing incidents.
Under the Stop Campus Hazing Act, universities and colleges were required to begin documenting hazing violations starting July 1, 2025, implement anti-hazing policies and publish their first Campus Hazing Transparency Report by Dec. 23, 2025. UW-Madison went beyond the July requirement by including hazing reports from years prior.
Dane County’s drug task force seized a sedan as part of a narcotics investigation, while Madison police seized $7,700 in cash in another case.
The task force is a collaboration of the Madison Police Department, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department with a focus on dismantling and disrupting drug trafficking.
One of the first signs of trouble came last spring, when the Trump administration abruptly moved to deport scores of international students, including a handful at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
University officials were alarmed, well aware that around 8,000 students, 15 percent of its enrollment, were from abroad. And they worried that the looming deportations might spook prospective international students, said Frances Vavrus, the dean of the international division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department (UWPD) is investigating a three-month string of four burglaries at the UW-Madison Law Building, according to a Wednesday crime alert.
The first burglary took place in late October, UWPD Executive Director of Communications Marc Lovicott told The Daily Cardinal in a statement. The most recent incident occurred Sunday. All four burglaries happened after hours, when the building was closed.
The UW-Madison Police Department (UWPD) released images Wednesday of people it has identified as persons of interest in a series of e-bike and e-scooter thefts.
Despite restrictions on the city government, there are a handful of Flock cameras set up within Madison, four around Capitol Square maintained by Capitol Police, and eight arrayed across the UW-Madison campus, according to UW-Madison Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
Aaron Seligman, a Madison native who previously worked for the Universities of Wisconsin, joined the cohort in February when taking on the new title of director of community relations at Madison Hillel.
The 13 professionals “take on the work of being that adult in the room that models and leads in relationship building with administrators, faculty and other Jewish communal professionals,” Simon said.
Seligman is focusing on areas the University of Wisconsin-Madison found specific needs for in the more than two years since Oct. 7. So far, Seligman has been “collaborating with the university administration on campus policies” and “engaging in media around campus climate and antisemitism,” Seligman said.
Left to expand without any check, our robust deer populations would overrun our natural environment (Wisconsin’s is 1.8 million, up two-thirds from just 10 years ago). As the Journal Sentinel reported, one UW-Madison study found 40 percent of species changes in northern Wisconsin and Michigan forests were tied to over-eating of plant life by deer, from stunting native tree regeneration to wiping out some plants altogether.
A 40-year-old Madison man wearing a Palestinian flag and holding his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun walked into a Jewish student organization on State Street on Monday asking for food, police said Tuesday.
Madison police arrested a man who they said entered a Jewish student organization’s building on the UW-Madison campus Monday evening and gestured as if he had a gun.
The Madison Police Department arrested a Madison man after he allegedly made gestures to make it seem like he had a gun at an event for Jewish UW-Madison students, officials reported on Tuesday.
Najib Azad, a lawyer, author and faculty staff at University of Wisconsin-Madison, also came to America in 2021 and now lives in Stevens Point. He previously served as press secretary for the former Afghan president.
“The entire Afghan community was profiled, they were judged, and then in the hour after that, in the second or third hour, almost every immigrant in this country was judged,” Azad told News 3 Now.
A man was arrested after causing a disturbance at a nonprofit organization serving Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Officers responded to the 500 block of State Street around 6:15 p.m. on Monday after reports of a man, wearing a ballistic vest and Palestinian flag, entering the building asking for food, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Stephanie Fryer.
“Between our child life specialists talking with siblings with our social workers’ help with identification, that was absolutely critical,” said Dr. Nicholas Kuehnel, vice chair of clinical operations for UW Health’s Dept. of Emergency Medicine. “Even our environmental services teammates that worked to help us turn the room over, get beds into place, get the linens on. None of this would be able to happen as smooth as it does without these individuals really helping each step along the way.”
Academic research has found that incarcerated immigrants face tougher punishment on average, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants. Michael Light, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked at the role of citizenship in both federal and state courts in California and Texas, which, unlike Alabama, keep detailed information about defendants’ citizenship status.
He found the starkest differences in Texas, where noncitizens received sentences 62% longer than citizens, even with the same charges and criminal backgrounds. The disparities exceed those between white and nonwhite citizens. Another researcher, University of California, Los Angeles law professor Ingrid Eagly, found similar results in her study of Harris County cases in Houston.
Child survivors of gun violence, and their parents, require special attention in the aftermath of a school shooting, said Janet Hyde, professor emeritus of psychology and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Under the right circumstances, returning to school can be a form of exposure therapy, especially if schools can emphasize learning, social activities and have an open channel for students to express their feelings, Hyde said, who authored the book, “The Psychology of Gun Violence.” It can also build resilience, which helps kids cope and manage stress.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) is proposing increased law enforcement presence, adjustments to fencing layout and stricter attendance policies this spring to Lily’s Classic, their annual hockey tournament and fundraiser, amid safety concerns. The changes currently await university approval.
In August, a group of former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball players sued former head coach Marisa Moseley, alleging psychological abuse.
The civil case, which also lists the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and former UW senior associate athletic director Justin Doherty as defendants, seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
Some say they fear being scapegoated for the actions of one man — an Afghan national who has been charged in the ambush-style shooting of two National Guard members last week.
“No community is responsible for an individual’s act,” said Najib Azad, a lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was resettled along with his wife and children in Stevens Point almost four years ago.
The Badger Herald requested text messages and emails from university officials involved in the visa terminations issue in order to look at the inner workings of the university and, in particular, the communications department.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chapter of Voices of Courage for Equity and Social Justice (VOCES) hosted a panel discussion with immigration attorneys to teach attendees about immigration rights and how students can support immigrants on campus.
Chicago schools blow millions on travel while students can’t read, more violent threats appear on midwestern campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is offering tips to help protect property while residents are away for the holiday season.
They emphasize the importance of creating an inventory of important documents and expensive items before departure. You can take photos or record videos showing your valuable items, including your electronics. This documentation can be crucial in the event of theft or damage.
The UW-Madison Police Department announced that K9 Ritter is retiring.
In a Facebook post, UWPD said Ritter hasn’t missed a single Badger football game in eight years and officially worked his final game on Nov. 22.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) petitioned the university to become a “sanctuary campus” to protect international students at a Nov. 14 rally on Library Mall.
More violent imagery appeared near the University of Wisconsin-Madison late last week, mirroring similar imagery found on the public school’s campus over a span of weeks, according to two students at the school.
UW-Madison police issued 20 citations at Saturday’s game against Illinois.
Citations included six for underage alcohol, four for throwing hard objects and two for trespassing. UW students accounted for nine of the 20 citations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police are investigating stickers that appeared on campus encouraging violence against federal immigration agents.
Republicans are pointing to the imagery as another example of the hostile climate conservatives face on college campuses.
