Attorneys in open records battle state case to Supreme Court
From Sunshine Review
April 21, 2009
[edit] Attorneys in open records battle state case to Supreme Court
"To allow a collective bargaining agreement between the state and a public employee union to trump the state's open records' laws is an absolute contradiction of Wisconsin's long-held presumption of openness in government, a lawyer for The Lakeland Times and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel told the state Supreme Court last week.
The justices heard oral arguments from both sides in the case, in which the two newspapers are seeking the names of certain state employees."
