Madison Officials To Examine Their Multitasking After State Journal Nabs ‘Em

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

Thanks to this story, which revealed that Madison City Council members are emailing or texting colleagues, lobbyists, staff and others during public meetings, led to this welcome piece of news: Madison City Council members intend to examine rules for emailing and texting during public meetings, and others are calling for a statewide review of such communications [...]

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FOI At Work: the punishments for docs who wrote sick notes for Wisconsin protesters…

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

An interesting nugget, courtesy of FOI: The state medical school disciplined 20 doctors and fined 11 of them up to $4,000 for handing out sick notes to demonstrators at last year’s labor protests, newly released records show. The records, requested by the Journal Sentinel last year under the state’s open records law, show for the [...]

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The Wisconsin FOI Landslide…

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

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 [...]

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Wisconsin Supremes Take Dispute Over Public Records Status of Legal Bills

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a law firm must disclose redacted portions of legal bills to a Juneau County newspaper under the state’s open records laws. The case is one of four recently accepted for review during the current term. A lawyer with the Crivello Carlson law firm served as counsel to Juneau County’s sheriff in [...]

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The Plot Thickens in Wisconsin: Did the Governor Create a Parallel E-Mail Universe?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

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 [...]

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Did The Wisconsin GOP Get Anything of Use From Their Much-Ballyhooed FOI Request?

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

I don’t really know, but this thoughtful commentary on the issue has me wondering whether the balancing test employed by the University of Wisconsin in determining which records would be disclosed is not ripe for appeal. cd

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The UW-Madison Response: Absolutely Fascinating

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Well, the UNiversity of Madison-Wisconsin complied with the request for a noted history professor’s e-mails — sort of, kind of. Here is the Chancellor’s message to the campus: And here is the official letter from counsel for the University of Wisconsin. The money graf: You should further note that the e-mails that we have reviewed [...]

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The New York Times weighs in on the Wisconsin email issue…

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Nothing here to advance the story, but love the quote from Bill Lueders of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council: “I’m pleased to see the Republicans making use of the open records law because they are as entitled to it as everyone else in the state,” said Bill Lueders, the president of theWisconsin Freedom of [...]

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So, What Gives When FOI Meets Academic Freedom? On FOI As A Partisan Tool….

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

So, Professor Bill Cronon writes an Op-Ed for the New York Times about the several ways in which he believes that Scott Walker and the current leadership of the Republican Party in Wisconsin have departed not just from the longstanding culture of civility and good government in this state, but in fact from important traditions [...]

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That controversial Wisconsin collective bargaining law?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees. Sumi’s order will prevent Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law until she can rule on the merits of the case. Dane County [...]

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