Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

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Ozaukee County is one of 72 counties in Wisconsin. The county seat is Port Washington. [1]

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Wisconsin county websites

[edit] The good

  • Budget information is online. [2]
  • Meeting minutes[3] and meeting agendas are online. [4]
  • Has a county directory with officials listed. [5]
  • Building permits and zoning information are available. [6]
  • A single recent audit is available for the East Wisconsin Railroad Consortium. [7]
  • Union contracts are posted on the site, [8] as is information on outside contracted services. [9]
  • Tax rates are available. [10]

[edit] The bad


[edit] Public Records

The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council performed an audit of compliance with the Wisconsin Open Records Law in 2008. 3 in 10 of the requests submitted were found to be ignored or responded to in violation of state law.

The request for jail booking records caught the Ozaukee County Police Department by surprise, and they indicated that no one had ever asked to see the booking records before. The office offered to look up information under what criteria they had available, but were not able to provide the specific records requested. [11]

See audit finds nearly 10% of open records requests denied or ignored for more.


[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ↑ County Seats of Wisconsin
  2. ↑ Budget Information
  3. ↑ Meeting Minutes
  4. ↑ Meeting Agendas
  5. ↑ County Directory
  6. ↑ Zoning Information, information is in Chapter 10.
  7. ↑ Financial Statements with Auditor's Report
  8. ↑ Union Agreements
  9. ↑ Register of Deeds: Contracted Services
  10. ↑ Tax Rates - Ozaukee County
  11. ↑ Nearly 10% of public records requests wrongly denied, statewide audit finds, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 19, 2008
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The current Directory lilnk is old and the new link to the directory is: http://www.co.ozaukee.wi.us/CountyClerk/PDF/CountyDirectory.pdf

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