A Dane County judge last week said the statewide ballot question on “Marsy’s Law” — the state constitutional amendment approved by voters last year that gave greater rights to crime victims — was improperly worded, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
However, the law as approved by voters will, for now, remain in effect.
Circuit Judge Frank Remington put his ruling on hold pending an inevitable appeal that could wind up before the state Supreme Court, writes the State Journal‘s Ed Treleven.
Since Marsy’s Law has taken effect, at least one public records custodian has indicated that he believes Marsy’s Law restricts access to certain information about crime victims contained in public records. However, as WNA attorney James Friedman outlines in a statement from the WNA, the law includes no reference whatsoever to records and “simply has no impact on the public’s right to access government records in Wisconsin.”
