Wisconsin Open Records Bill hearing & A bit of SIS Trivia

A kind reader forwarded a number of notes and links on the recent Wisconsin "open records" hearing:

Wisconsin eye video archive.

This bill (8 R + 1 D sponsors) is making some strange, strange bedfellows: Bill Lueders speaking approvingly of Gov. Walker's open records release policy (unredacted emails) and criticizing (without calling out by name) Erpenbach for fighting MacIver Institute's open records lawsuit.

Former Madison Schools' counsel Dan Mallin is presently counsel to WASB, who is supporting the bill...perhaps an element of "Mallin's revenge" for the State AG/MMSD "spam" smackdown forever memorialized in footnote 10 of the supreme court opinion that this bill is seeking to overturn?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recap:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/state-panel-raises-concerns-about-bill-allowing-charges-for-public-records-redactions-k38v0pq-193626741.html

Isthmus recap:
http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=39271
this should have been titled "Journalists and citizen testify against".

WSJ editorial:
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/editorial/don-t-charge-to-delete-information/article_3a8d4bac-819e-11e2-8ffc-0019bb2963f4.html

The footnote 10 matter related to this SIS open records request.....

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 4, 2013 1:40 AM
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