Openness Report

The Beloit Daily News reported the newspaper has waited more than two months for its school district to provide a complaint under state public records laws.

A last-minute move Tuesday by a Sauk County committee prohibited the County Board from voting on a gun rights referendum. While acting on the issue would have violated the state’s Open Meetings Law, some supervisors still sought to circumvent the committee’s vote, the Baraboo News Republic reported.

Sauk County Board members whose email chain privately discussed electing a new chair may have violated open meetings laws, the Baraboo News Republic reported.

Twins hospitalized with lead poisoning were released and sent home to a property with chipping and peeling lead paint, records show.

Janesville residents are questioning whether it was ethical for a city council member to delete Facebook comments in response to his recent post.

BARABOO – The Wisconsin Department of Justice has found that Sauk County officials should have provided more specific notice to the public before adopting new

APPLETON – When four Appleton area women were killed in apparent incidents of domestic violence over the course of just 10 months, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

Rock County officials’ text messages will be archived and available as public records beginning this week, The (Janesville) Gazette reported.

Some Brown County supervisors have gone years without using their official county email addresses, Doug Schneider of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

The Madison Police Department has launched an effort to catalog the locations of private surveillance cameras so they can access footage for investigations. Collected footage would be subject to open records law.