Your Right to Know: Anyone Can Lay Down the Law on Open Records

Anyone can lay down the law on open records in Wisconsin

I am not a lawyer. I am a Madison resident who is curious about how the city spends money and whether it follows its own rules.

Your Right to Know: Anyone can lay down the law on open records

Reading Time: 3 minutes I am not a lawyer. I am a Madison resident who is curious about how the city spends money and whether it follows its own rules.  A few years ago, I started writing a blog about Madison city government, focusing on things the mainstream media were not covering. A big part of this involves obtaining records under the state’s open records law. When I want to know what is happening, I ask for the documents, and I read them. T…

July: Anyone can lay down the law on open records – Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council

I am not a lawyer. I am a Madison resident who is curious about how the city spends money and whether it follows its own rules. A few years ago, I started writing a blog about Madison city government, focusing on things the mainstream media were not covering. A big part of this involves obtaining records under the state’s open records law. When I want to know what is happening, I ask for the documents, and I read them. The open records law is bu…

Column: Anyone can lay down the law on open records

I am not a lawyer. I am a Madison resident who is curious about how the city spends money and whether it follows its own rules.  A few years ago, I started writing a blog about Madison city government, focusing on things the mainstream media were not covering. A big part of this involves obtaining records under the state’s open records law. When I want to know what is happening, I ask for the documents, and I read them. The open records law is b…