The Media Openness Award acknowledges The Badger Project’s use of – and fight for – records to investigate law enforcement.
The Badger Project wins public records ‘Opee’ award from Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council
Wisconsin legislators give selves a ‘bizarre’ loophole in public records law
In Wisconsin, public officials generally must retain all public records, which includes emails. But state legislators have no legal obligation to do so.
CARTOON: Wisconsin state legislators and the Open Records Law
According to the state’s Open Records Law, every public official in Wisconsin must keep their records should anyone from the public want to see them. Except for state legislators.
