Your Right to Know

Your Right to Know: Private Email Accounts Obscure Public Business
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Private Email Accounts Obscure Public Business

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

Your Right To Know: Bar Legislators From Destroying Records
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Bar Legislators From Destroying Records

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

Your Right to Know: Officials Use Secret Portals to Hide Records
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Officials Use Secret Portals to Hide Records

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

Your Right to Know: Open Records Fees Discourage Government Transparency
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Open Records Fees Discourage Government Transparency

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

Your Right to Know: Redistricting Shouldn’t Be Done In Secret
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Redistricting Shouldn’t Be Done In Secret

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

Your Right to Know: Mask-Less Public Meetings Are Illegal
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Mask-Less Public Meetings Are Illegal

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

Your Right To Know: Remote Meetings Can Hide Information
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Remote Meetings Can Hide Information

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

Your Right to Know: Both Parties Delay on Open Records
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Both Parties Delay on Open Records

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

State Prisons Too Secretive About COVID-19

State Prisons Too Secretive About COVID-19

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

Your Right To Know: State Should Identify Schools With COVID-19 Outbreaks
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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.

Your Right to Know: More Online Access to Public Records Needed
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More Online Access to Public Records Needed

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

Your Right To Know: Release Business Names With COVID-19 Outbreaks
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Release Business Names With COVID-19 Outbreaks

Let the public make informed decisions about their own safety.