Attorneys join Wisconsin Rapids teachers' e-mail legal battle

Four attorneys who represent employees from two of the state's largest cities have become involved in a Wisconsin Rapids School District lawsuit involving teacher e-mails.

Lawyers from Milwaukee and Madison have sided with the five Wisconsin Rapids teachers who are arguing that personal e-mails from their work computers are not public records that should be open to scrutiny.

Read more here.

College Students Learn About Procuring Public Records

The goal of the experiment was to determine if local public records are truly accessible to ordinary citizens.

Thirty-eight UW-River Falls students who took part in an open records aud3it learned the answer is nearly always yes. But that doesn’t mean all area officials give up the information graciously.

Local Government Owner's Manual: Getting access to public records

As an owner of local government, you have a right to know what your public servants really are doing. One way to find out is to request public records.

This chapter of the Local Government Owners Manual will tell you how to file a Public Records Law request in Wisconsin.
According to state law, “all persons are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those officers and employees who represent them.” As a result, there is a “presumption of complete public access” to records.

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/02/03/news/z02manual03.txt

Burnette County Wisconsin Roster of Inmates

Locate inmate information:

http://publicrecordswire.com/resources/show/burnette-county-wi-roster-of-inmates