Lawmakers must provide any documents they possess in response to an open records request. But they don’t need to provide documents they don’t have, and nothing compels them to keep documents.
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Your Right to Know: Lawmaker contacts shouldn’t be secret
There is a broader issue: the public has a right to know who is saying what to elected officials.
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Your Right to Know: Vukmir wrong on records law
State Sen. Leah Vukmir is making a novel legal argument to dodge a public records request — one that could neuter Wisconsin’s Open Records Law.