Loophole lets Wisconsin lawmakers delete public records

Loophole lets Wisconsin lawmakers delete public records

All public employees in Wisconsin must retain records, per the state’s open records law. Except one group. The ones who wrote that law. State legislators have exempted themselves from the retention portion of the law. Some want to change that. “The public should not have to worry about legislators having secret conversations or deleting emails,” said state Rep. Clinton Anderson, D-Beloit, who is introducing a bill that would close this loophole …