More than 20 newly elected or appointed municipal judges received training in a number of topic areas at the 2022 Municipal Judge Orientation held May 3-4 in Oshkosh. Also in attendance at the Office of Judicial Education program were 19 faculty members, including circuit court and municipal judges; two Wisconsin state troopers; two District Court Administrators; and two municipal court clerks. The troopers took the group out to the streets of Oshkosh to see how the laser traffic speed enforcement devices work and so judges could try them out.
Other training sessions addressed an overview of the court system, ethics, statutory and trial procedures, juveniles, the 4th Amendment, plea agreements, traffic violations, OWI and drivers licensing, among other topics.
As of February 2021, there were 229 municipal courts in Wisconsin, including 79 of that were joint courts that serve from two to eighteen municipalities. Milwaukee has the largest municipal court, with three full-time judges. In totality, Wisconsin's municipal courts handled more than 450,000 cases in 2019.