So Gov. Walker got FOIA’d a bunch . Really? Who would have thunk it? The firestorm of debate ignited by Gov. Scott Walker’s changes to collective bargaining rules last year also triggered an explosion of requests for public information from his office. The office received 214 written requests during 2011, some three times more than [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter | Tagged: Freedom of Information Act, Scott Walker, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »
Today’s plot twist in the Wisconsin recall saga contained a nugget of interest to FOI types…in a story on criminal charges being filed against a couple of Walker associates for politicking on state time, came this: Milwaukee County prosecutors also made the surprising disclosure that top Walker aides set up a private Internet network to [...]
Filed under: 7. Electronic records | Tagged: e-mail, electronic records, governor, Scott Walker, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »
Nice work, Christa! The office of Gov. Scott Walker has agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit brought by Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press over access to emails sent to the governor in response to his “budget repair bill.” The settlement requires the governor to produce the emails and pay attorney fees for the plaintiffs’ [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 3. Access law, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: Associated Press, Scott Walker, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »
A soap opera within a soap opera in Wisconsin….just keeps getting better. This was a fabulous FOI request! About halfway through a three-hour hearing Tuesday afternoon on the lawsuitbrought by Isthmus and the Wisconsin Associated Press over emails received by the office of Gov. Scott Walker regarding his “budget repair bill,” Dane County Judge Patrick Fiedler made [...]
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Isthmus newspaper and the Wisconsin Associated Press today filed a lawsuit against Gov. Scott Walker over his office’s failure to respond to open records requests regarding emails received by his office. “The governor said he had gotten more than 8,000 emails as of Feb. 17, with ‘the majority’ urging him to ‘stay firm’ on his [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: Associated Press, Scott Walker, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »
