Sex Offender Released In Calumet County

Calumet County authorities will be holding a community notification meeting in Forest Junction about the release of a 42-year-old sex offender. John Elder will be released today and will be living at W404 County Road K in Brillion. Elder was convicted of sexual assault of a child charges in Richland County in 1990 and 1996 and civilly committed under the state’s sexually violent person statutes since completing his prison sentence in 2006. A Richland County Jury determined last week he on longer met the legal criteria for continued civil commitment. His victims were 14 and 15-year-old girls. The notification meeting will be held at the Town of Brillion Municipal Building on Monday, December 16th at 6:30 p.m. He will be on GPS monitoring.