Your Right to Know
Private Email Accounts Obscure Public Business
Elected officials and public employees should not be allowed to use a private email for government business.
Jul 1st, 2021 by Tom Kamenick
Bar Legislators From Destroying Records
State law requires public officials to preserve emails, but lawmakers exempted themselves.
Jun 3rd, 2021 by Larry Gallup
Officials Use Secret Portals to Hide Records
UW-Madison administration, Republican legislators use digital dodges to violate open records law.
May 3rd, 2021 by David Armiak
Open Records Fees Discourage Government Transparency
Public record custodians can charges thousands of dollars to process a public records request.
Apr 2nd, 2021 by Bill Lueders
Redistricting Shouldn’t Be Done In Secret
The last time around Republicans did it in secret and destroyed records of their deliberations.
Mar 2nd, 2021 by Matthew DeFour
Mask-Less Public Meetings Are Illegal
They endanger health and prevent access to all interested in attending.
Feb 1st, 2021 by Larry Gallup
Remote Meetings Can Hide Information
Some government bodies have been very transparent. Others not so much.
Jan 1st, 2021 by Olivia Herken
Both Parties Delay on Open Records
Long delays by state officials to open records requests have been the norm for the last decade.
Dec 2nd, 2020 by Bill Lueders
State Prisons Too Secretive About COVID-19
Department of Corrections took months to release numbers, still trying to hide information.
Nov 2nd, 2020 by Gretchen Schuldt
State Should Identify Schools With COVID-19 Outbreaks
A handful of other states are doing this, and so should Wisconsin's Department of Health Services.
Oct 8th, 2020 by Jonathan Anderson
More Online Access to Public Records Needed
In the age of pandemic, local and state government departments should routinely create online copies of records.
Sep 1st, 2020 by Steven Potter
Release Business Names With COVID-19 Outbreaks
Let the public make informed decisions about their own safety.
Aug 4th, 2020 by Christa Westerberg
