Public Records; Evading the Light of Day

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Public officials throughout the region might want to pay particular attention to two cases involving apparent efforts by their colleagues in some communities to keep information from the public. The public needs to hold its employees in government accountable for what they do and how they do it.

Too often, it seems, those public officials like to drop the first part of their titles and pretend that they are just officials who don't need to be held accountable.

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Public Records; Evading the Light of Day

They're wrong, of course, and when they go too far, the courts have to slap them down, as the state Court of Appeals recently did to three southeastern Wisconsin communities. The court ruling a...

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