City of Sun Prairie employees and elected officials won’t be able to text on city-owned cell phones under a new proposed policy.
City officials want to crack down on texting because they say it’s difficult to retain the records, required under the Wisconsin Open Records Laws. Continue…
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Those giving money to governors, lawmakers and other candidates would no longer have to disclose who they work for under a rewritten campaign finance bill that is rocketing through the Wisconsin Legislature.
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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel must make public a pair of law enforcement training videos he made before being elected and that Democrats say show him making inappropriate comments, a state appeals court has ruled.
There is no compelling reason to keep secret the videos, made in 2009 and 2013 when Schimel was Waukesha County district attorney, the unanimous three-judge panel on the 2nd District Court of Appeals said. Continue…
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Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are calling for a constitutional amendment to protect the state’s open records and meetings laws from future tinkering.
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After proposing to gut the state’s open records law in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and legislative leaders were bombarded with a bipartisan backlash and quickly did an about-face. They released a joint statement to the effect that all changes would be abandoned pending the findings of a study committee.
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The state Supreme Court will hear arguments this month on whether police can redact information gleaned from driver data from reports released to the public.
A federal appeals court ruled in 2012 that the village of Palatine, Illinois, violated the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act by leaving a parking ticket on a resident's car listing his personal information. Continue>>>
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Attorney General Brad Schimel began his first meeting on open government issues by addressing the "elephant in the room."
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Attorney General Brad Schimel is starting the substantial task of updating the state’s open records law at a time when voices of outrage are still reverberating in the Capitol’s halls over a recent unsuccessful attempt by leading lawmakers to significantly diminish public scrutiny.
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In the face of withering criticism, Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican leaders of the Legislature announced Saturday that a provision added to the state budget to gut the open records law “will be removed from the budget in its entirety.”
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Madison— Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is creating an Office of Open Government to help the public obtain government records more quickly and consistently.
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