Walker’s Attack on Open Records ‘More Than a Coincidence’
"Facing an intense public backlash, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and top legislative leaders have backed down from an effort to impose controversial limits on the state’s open records law, including a provision to exempt records used during the “deliberative process” of drafting law or policy.
But a review by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism shows similarities between the proposed language, which was inserted into the budget by GOP lawmakers on Thursday, and that used by Walker and others in denying recent records requests."
