Governor Evers Being Sued by Wisconsin Transparency Project
Friday, December 20th, 2019 -- 10:07 AM
(AP) -The Wisconsin Transparency Project is suing Gov. Tony Evers on behalf of WITI-TV over his reluctance to release emails to the Milwaukee station under the state’s open records law.Evers released a day’s worth of emails after initially denying the station’s request. Evers was criticized by open records advocates for initially rejecting the reporter’s request because it was not limited to a specific subject. The station’s reporter first asked for four weeks of emails, then narrowed that to a week after Evers rebuffed the first inquiry. His staff attorneys said turning over a bloc of emails is too burdensome.
Evers’ legal counsel said the office was releasing the governor’s emails from a single day because it was making an exception to a portion of the public records law that says a request for records “is deemed sufficient if it reasonably describes the requested record or the information requested.”
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