{"id":41,"date":"2004-02-19T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2004-02-19T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T07:21:12","slug":"open_records_email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Open Records &#038; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An assistant state attorney general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/wauk\/feb04\/208598.asp\">advised public officials Wednesday not to use e-mails<\/a> to communicate back and forth with their fellow members on local government bodies because they could be violating Wisconsin&#8217;s open meetings law.<br \/>\nThe use of e-mail is &#8220;a thorny issue,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Bruce Olsen told an audience of about 100 local government and school board officials, law enforcement officers, attorneys and journalists at a seminar organized by the state Department of Justice.<br \/>\n&#8220;Sometimes it looks like a letter and sometimes it looks like a conversation,&#8221; Olsen said of e-mail correspondence. AMY RINARD &#8211; Journal-Sentinel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assistant state attorney general advised public officials Wednesday not to use e-mails to communicate back and forth with their fellow members on local government bodies because they could be violating Wisconsin&#8217;s open meetings law. The use of e-mail is &#8220;a thorny issue,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Bruce Olsen told an audience of about 100 local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}