MacIver News Service – As part of the administration’s Sunshine Week initiatives, Gov. Scott Walker has signed Executive Order #189 into law. The executive order establishes new requirements for state agencies relating to open records requests, including a more definitive timeline for response time as well as a statewide public tracking system so that the public may compare agency responsiveness. Read More In Time for Sunshine Week, Walker Announces New Open Records Initiatives
by James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Despite the light of the full moon, darkness descended upon Wisconsin’s government. On Thursday night the Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee voted to gut Wisconsin’s open records law. In… Read More And Darkness Descended Upon Wisconsin
Guest Perspective by Ernst-Ulrich Franzen – In a recent column, state Attorney General Brad Schimel called for updating the state’s open government laws to meet the challenges of the digital age. He’s exactly right. The laws were enacted long before the Internet — let alone Facebook and Twitter — came into being. Read More Open Government Must Embrace Digital Age