Wisconsin Senate Approves Plan to Charge Local Governments for Withholding Public Information

Wisconsin Senators want to take away a strategy that some local governments have used to keep public information under wraps.

The State Senate on Wednesday approved SB 117, also known as The Open Government Protection Act, with a simple voice vote. The legislation would force local governments to pay the legal fees of people who sue over open records requests, even if the local government doesn’t technically lose the case.

Read the full story