Openness Report

A Big Bend Village Board trustee may face a recall election, according to a document obtained by The Waukesha Freeman under the state’s public records law. 

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir is facing scrutiny about a 2014 open records case that cost Wisconsin taxpayers $15,000.

GREEN BAY – An encounter last winter with a man who was recording video inside and outside of Green Bay police headquarters has resulted in

Congressional candidate Cathy Myers is facing scrutiny about her conduct as a Janesville School Board member during a bitter, two-year fight over district records, the

FITCHBURG – Biotechnology company Promega is moving 25 instrument production jobs from California to near its headquarters in Fitchburg, reported the Wisconsin State Journal. According to

GREEN BAY – Brown County Supervisor Patrick Evans on Monday proposed an advisory referendum regarding prayer at public meetings, Doug Schneider of the Green Bay

When a former student accused a Little Chute teacher of sexual assault in 2009, it took nearly six months for Superintendent David Botz months to confront him, according to a report USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin obtained through an open records request. Botz never contacted police or child protective services about the student’s report, the network’s Alison Dirr reported. He told the school board that because the student was an adult when she came forward, he didn’t believe he was required under the mandatory reporter statute to make such a report.

Records show that a candidate running for Outagamie County sheriff failed a background check earlier this year after he applied for a local police chief job, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reported.