Madison School District Must Pay $31K for Refusing to Turn Over Employee Sick Notes
Eugene Volokh:
The lawsuit was filed under state public records law, in the wake of the controversy over whether the sick notes were based on honest claims of sickness; the newspaper agreed to have the employee names blacked out to preserve employee privacy.
Speaking of Madison, this James Madison quote -- made about support for education funding, but often also used by supporters of public access to government records -- might be relevant:
A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance; and a people, who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
More,
here.
Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 3, 2012 8:20 PM
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