Gov. Tony Evers is turning over more than 10,000 pages in documents to Republican state Rep. John Nygren, and paying the lawmaker's $40,000 in legal fees, in order to settle an open-records lawsuit.

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The public would have access to most police body-camera video under a bipartisan bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate.

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Gov. Tony Evers released a day's worth of his emails to a newspaper, after initially saying state law prohibited him from doing that.

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The Judicial Council discussed on Friday the best way to respond to a request for records related to a recent overhaul of Wisconsin's rules of civil procedure.

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The Judicial Council has received a wide-ranging open-records request from the Wisconsin Civil Justice Council concerning recent changes to the state's civil-litigation rules.

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A group is suing the state Department of Justice to obtain records related to the Affordable Care Act.

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A Racine alderwoman says a judge has postponed her contempt hearing.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is reviewing how the state's open records law applies to the court system, sparking concern among government transparency advocates that justices may close off legal documents to the public.

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Police from across Wisconsin supported a bill Thursday that would set state policy for when body camera video can be made public and would allow for much of the footage to be withheld.

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Imagine the horror of being wrongly imprisoned for a heinous crime you didn't commit. In Wisconsin, that has happened to an estimated 40 people in the past 25 years.

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A bill that would increase compensation for people wrongly convicted of crimes has open records advocates worried over what it would do to court records.

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Transparency is the core value of a democratic society. In a democratic self-government, voters have the power to select and reject those who will wield the power of government.

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It was disheartening last week to see three state Supreme Court justices siding with secrecy over openness in an open records dispute between the New Richmond News and that city's police department.

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Wisconsin officials backed away Thursday from a move to cut back on record-keeping requirements amid a backlash by open government advocates.

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Officials with the state Department of Justice say the agency is responding faster to open record requests.

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was the state lawmaker who drafted a proposal that would have gutted Wisconsin's open records law and protected legislators from having to release documents currently available, documents released to The Associated Press on Thursday show.

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After promising not to withhold government information over "speculative or abstract fears," the Obama administration has concluded it will not publicly disclose federal records that could shed light on the security of the government's health care website because doing so could "potentially" allow hackers to break in.

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In a recent Court of Appeals’ case, domestic violence clashed with the open records law.

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A legislator has agreed to turn over additional records from an American Legislative Exchange Conference she attended to settle a lawsuit.

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The state Assembly has approved a bill that clarifies Wisconsin's open records law extends to elected officials.

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The Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute over whether lawyers can obtain personal information from driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits, despite a federal privacy law intended to shield motor vehicle records.

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2011AP1059 State of Wisconsin ex rel. Wanninger v. City of Manitowoc Public Library Board

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2010AP2313 Juneau County Star-Times v. Juneau County

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