Village of Waterford May Have Violated 1st Amendment by Blocking Citizen on Facebook
A federal judge ruled in January that Vos... violated the First Amendment when they blocked liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
A federal judge ruled in January that Vos... violated the First Amendment when they blocked liberal group One Wisconsin Now.
And, let's not forget Nygren's role in blocking the liberal group One Wisconsin Now from following him on Twitter.
Brian Hagedorn was at the center of some of the most notorious efforts to evade and gut Wisconsin’s open records law.
Robin Vos has shown he doesn’t like leaks in either his professional or private life, based on recent media reports and public records.
We urge you to rescind the “Openness” award you gave to Gov. Walker earlier this year.
Attorney General Said He Terminated Employee for Violating Open Records Law, But Brad Schimel Himself Sought to Hide Records of Junket to Hate Group Conference.
Today, One Wisconsin Now Research Director Joanna Beilman-Dulin blasted DOJ’s response as, “wholly inadequate.”
“Walker had a political problem because of what happened with the open records debacle a couple of years ago,” said Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now.
As Matt Rothschild and Scot Ross pointed out in a joint column, Walker has generally been a hostile force to transparency for much of his tenure as governor.
Scot Ross joins the Devils to criticize Scott Walker for his Open Records Award.
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.
Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said that is exactly what is happening with his organization.
Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's Dept. of Justice has denied a liberal group's request for records detailing promotional purchases during his tenure.
“He’s spending our money to buy things like commemorative coins, travel mugs and towels and he owes us a complete accounting of it.”
Tensions between Gov. Scott Walker and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are evident in personal text messages between the two, newly released under Wisconsin’s open records law, in which they spar over the...
Text messages between Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos released Friday reveal private tensions over the state budget, adding another layer to increasingly terse inter-party bickering over the...
A simple request to Milwaukee County’s top law enforcement official has yet to be fulfilled as constituents are left in the dark about his whereabouts.
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now has waited more than a month for calendars for Schimel and department spokesman Johnny Koremenos.
We’re shining a light today on the failure of the Attorney General who nearly two months later has yet to provide us with the requested documents.
Scot Ross, director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, called the executive order an “empty gesture.”
Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday issued an executive order making it easier for the public to find state government notices and meeting minutes. Walker in his order also asked state agencies to...
Scot Ross, director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, called the executive order an "empty gesture."
The people of Wisconsin deserve to know how elected officials are doing their jobs. And Brad Schimel - at the time these videos were recorded - was an elected official.
Records released Friday by Gov. Scott Walker’s office in response to a judge’s order make clear he sought controversial changes in 2015 to the University of Wisconsin System’s mission statement, known as...
Among the critics were conservative and liberal groups including One Wisconsin Now, as well as ordinary citizens with no political ax to grind.
One group that has requested records from Bradley disagreed. The liberal group One Wisconsin Now requested Bradley's calendars in September.
The Walker administration cited the [records denial] provision... when the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now requested visitor logs to the governor's mansion earlier this year.
In advance of Sunshine Week, Gov. Scott Walker is ordering his administration to improve its handling of public records requests, speed up response times and provide mandatory records training for all state...
Political appointees of the Department of Natural Resources discussed disciplining an employee after she provided public records to a Sheboygan County citizens group fighting plans by the Kohler Co. for a golf...
Jenni Dye, research director for One Wisconsin Now, said she doesn’t believe the police logs meet the definition of “transitory” records.
Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday indicated a decision by his administration to not release an employee's text messages related to a questionable WEDC loan goes against his own open records policy.
The Walker administration also cited the August redefinition of “transitory correspondence” when denying a records request from the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now.
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning...
The action drew objections from groups on both sides of Wisconsin’s partisan divide, such as the as the liberal One Wisconsin Now .
The change drew criticism from conservative and liberal groups alike, including the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and One Wisconsin Now.
Concealing a list of people who visit a public building, presumably to meet with the state’s most powerful leader, is arrogant and immediately suspect.
Then there was the open records request by One Wisconsin Now, asking for visitor logs at the governor’s mansion from November 2014 through early April 2015, during the time Walker was planning...
A liberal watchdog group, One Wisconsin Now, filed an open-records request for the office calendars from Bradley's days as a judge in a lower case.
The changes also appear to address a records request from the advocacy group One Wisconsin Now. The organization repeatedly requested records which would show who visited the governor’s mansion before and after...
A liberal group is alleging state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley violated the state's open records law and says it is exploring options for legal recourse.
One Wisconsin Now says that based on her comments in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Rebecca Bradley, violated the state’s open record laws.
Lueders’ group last week filed a verified complaint against the state Public Records Board, which it contended violated the open meetings law at its Aug. 24 meeting, when it voted to expand...
Either Rebecca Bradley wasn't working very hard or she's hiding who she was meeting with and what she was doing on taxpayer time," Ross said in a written statement.
The rule changes also were raised in response to a request from One Wisconsin Now, a liberal group seeking a list of visitors to the governor’s residence.
Gov. Walker’s administration cited the “transitory” record provision when it denied a records request for text messages by the Wisconsin State Journal, and when the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now requested...
He noted that Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has already used the new definition of “transitory” records to justify denying records that existed at one time, but were not maintained. One of those...
The rule changes also were raised in response to a request from One Wisconsin Now, a liberal group seeking a list of visitor's to the governor's residence.