Openness Report

MADISON – The Center for Media and Democracy, a Madison-based nonprofit, sued the state Department of Justice (DOJ) this week for its refusal to release

MIDDLETON – The gunman who shot four people at a Dane County software company Wednesday was flagged as being a danger to co-workers and banned

WHITEWATER – After a UW-Whitewater investigation concluded in June that Pete Hill, husband of Chancellor Beverly Kopper, had sexually harassed female employees, UW System President Ray Cross

BARABOO – A judge said Friday he is likely to make public portions of a redacted email involving a Spring Green man found dead on

A Racine County judge’s decision to seal a public records lawsuit has confounded open government advocates, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Some researchers working as part of a partnership between Foxconn and UW-Madison could be paid by the university in an agreement that also includes confidentiality clauses.

Employees in the Wisconsin Department of Justice were instructed last month to sign a nondisclosure agreement on the same day as the release of a tell-all book about the Gov. Scott Walker administration.

A planned Oneida County forestry committee trip to the Eagle Mine in Marinette, Mich., is raising open meetings questions.

Two years after a teen inmate almost died, state officials alerted nursing regulators to the incident — a day after it was reported by the Journal Sentinel.