Your Right to Know

• Records Fees Mean Records Denials

  Feb 6th, 2020 by Sheila Plotkin

  Some legislators charge more than $100 to forward digital records. Is that open records?

• Pollution Records Shouldn’t Be a Secret

  Jan 2nd, 2020 by Christa Westerberg

  Bipartisan bill requires government pollution test results to be disclosed in a timely fashion.

• Don’t Block Anonymous Requests

  Dec 3rd, 2019 by Larry Gallup

  Some governments refuse anonymous requests for open records. That’s illegal. And anti-democratic.

• Here Are Your Open Government Rights

  Nov 4th, 2019 by Tom Kamenick

  How you can make sure government meetings and records remain open to the people.

• Evers Can Do Better On Openness

  Oct 2nd, 2019 by Bill Lueders

  Evers Administration excludes right-wing news service from receiving media notifications and shutdown a website to track open records requests.

• Legislators Use Fees to Keep Records Secret

  Sep 3rd, 2019 by Jonathan Anderson

  Charging citizens making open records requests means less scrutiny of government.

• Abrahamson Let the Sunshine In

  Jul 31st, 2019 by Christa Westerberg

  For decades Justice Abrahamson was state Supreme Court’s foremost champion of open records.

• Kaul Embraces Opens Records Policy

  Jul 1st, 2019 by Arn Pearson

  State Attorney General settles lawsuit, changes predecessor's policy of withholding emails.

• Bill Prevents Scrutiny of Lottery Winners

  Jun 4th, 2019 by Dee J. Hall

  Shielding those records could open the door to cheating, conspiring to win millions.

• Body Camera Bill Balances Privacy, Openness

  May 6th, 2019 by Kyle Geissler

  Legislative Study Committee has created bipartisan bill with sensible regulations of police body cameras.

• Don’t Purge Expunged Criminal Records

  Apr 3rd, 2019 by April Barker

  The goal of helping ex-offenders get jobs is laudable, but too much public information will be lost.

• Public Employee Records Should Be Public

  Jan 31st, 2019 by Larry Gallup

  But state departments are withholding disciplinary records on employees.