{"id":3399,"date":"2008-11-23T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2008-11-23T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:46:01","slug":"2008_wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"2008 Wisconsin Public Records Audit: 3 in 10 public-records requests not properly fulfilled,new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisfoic.org\/audit\/pressrelease.html\">Bill Lueders &#038; Jason Shephard<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A statewide public records audit found that one in 10 requests for basic documents were denied or ignored by local governments.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAnother two in 10 requests were fulfilled only after records custodians required the requesters to identify themselves or explain why they wanted the documents, in violation of state law.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe audit, conducted by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, involved 318 public records requests filed in 65 counties.<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cWe were not trying to trick anyone,&#8221; says Bill Lueders, the Council&#8217;s elected president and news editor of Isthmus newspaper. &#8220;We asked for basic information that no one should have any problems getting. And yet there were problems.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisfoic.org\/audit\/pressrelease.html\">Bill Lueders &#038; Jason Shephard<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A statewide public records audit found that one in 10 requests for basic documents were denied or ignored by local governments.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAnother two in 10 requests were fulfilled only after records custodians required the requesters to identify themselves or explain why they wanted the documents, in violation of state law.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe audit, conducted by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, involved 318 public records requests filed in 65 counties.<br \/><Br><br \/>\n\u201cWe were not trying to trick anyone,&#8221; says Bill Lueders, the Council&#8217;s elected president and news editor of Isthmus newspaper. &#8220;We asked for basic information that no one should have any problems getting. And yet there were problems.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}