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Your Right to Know: Evers Can Do Better On Openness
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Evers Can Do Better On Openness

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

Your Right to Know: Legislators Use Fees to Keep Records Secret
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Legislators Use Fees to Keep Records Secret

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

Your Right to Know: Abrahamson Let the Sunshine In
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Abrahamson Let the Sunshine In

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

Your Right to Know: Kaul Embraces Opens Records Policy
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Kaul Embraces Opens Records Policy

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

Your Right to Know: Bill Prevents Scrutiny of Lottery Winners
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Bill Prevents Scrutiny of Lottery Winners

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

Your Right to Know: Body Camera Bill Balances Privacy, Openness
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Body Camera Bill Balances Privacy, Openness

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

Your Right to Know: Don’t Purge Expunged Criminal Records
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Don’t Purge Expunged Criminal Records

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

Your Right to Know: Public Employee Records Should Be Public
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Public Employee Records Should Be Public

But state departments are withholding disciplinary records on employees.

Your Right to Know: Legislature Exempts Itself From Open Records
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Legislature Exempts Itself From Open Records

While requiring it of all other governments in state.

Your Right to Know: Lame Duck Laws All About Secrecy
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Lame Duck Laws All About Secrecy

Vos and Fitzgerald didn’t even attend the public hearing on their far-reaching legislation.

Your Right to Know: Odd Case Shows Folly of Official Secrecy
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Odd Case Shows Folly of Official Secrecy

Racine judge actually seals the proceedings of an open-records suit.

Your Right to Know: Dems Back More Openness, GOP Mostly Mum
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Dems Back More Openness, GOP Mostly Mum

Freedom of Information Council survey gets little response from GOP candidates.