Your Right to Know

• State Lawmakers Want Records of Misconduct Hidden

  Jul 29th, 2021 by Bill Lueders

  Assembly members are fighting to keep personal misconduct records confidential.

• Private Email Accounts Obscure Public Business

  Jul 1st, 2021 by Tom Kamenick

  Elected officials and public employees should not be allowed to use a private email for government business.

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  Bar Legislators From Destroying Records

  Jun 3rd, 2021 by Larry Gallup

  State law requires public officials to preserve emails, but lawmakers exempted themselves.

• Officials Use Secret Portals to Hide Records

  May 3rd, 2021 by David Armiak

  UW-Madison administration, Republican legislators use digital dodges to violate open records law.

• Open Records Fees Discourage Government Transparency

  Apr 2nd, 2021 by Bill Lueders

  Public record custodians can charges thousands of dollars to process a public records request.

• Redistricting Shouldn’t Be Done In Secret

  Mar 2nd, 2021 by Matthew DeFour

  The last time around Republicans did it in secret and destroyed records of their deliberations.

• Mask-Less Public Meetings Are Illegal

  Feb 1st, 2021 by Larry Gallup

  They endanger health and prevent access to all interested in attending.

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  Remote Meetings Can Hide Information

  Jan 1st, 2021 by Olivia Herken

  Some government bodies have been very transparent. Others not so much.

• Both Parties Delay on Open Records

  Dec 2nd, 2020 by Bill Lueders

  Long delays by state officials to open records requests have been the norm for the last decade.

• State Prisons Too Secretive About COVID-19

  Nov 2nd, 2020 by Gretchen Schuldt

  Department of Corrections took months to release numbers, still trying to hide information.

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  State Should Identify Schools With COVID-19 Outbreaks

  Oct 8th, 2020 by Jonathan Anderson

  A handful of other states are doing this, and so should Wisconsin's Department of Health Services.

• More Online Access to Public Records Needed

  Sep 1st, 2020 by Steven Potter

  In the age of pandemic, local and state government departments should routinely create online copies of records.