From Racine Community Media:
"BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL GROUP FILES FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH RACINE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ASKING FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CITY OF RACINE FOR FAILING TO FILL PUBLIC OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS, AND ALSO FAILING TO NOTICE A FORMAL COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST CABLE COMMISSIONER AND MAYOR JOHN DICKERT’S CAMPAIGN TREASURER MARY JERGER OSTERMAN."
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The City of Racine has a legal requirement to respond, and it has chosen to deliberately fail to. That's illegal, and wrong.
It's just another Pattern, or Practice of the City of Racine, which is behaving like a criminal organization.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: Commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.
It just goes to show how guilty they really are, not honoring open records requests from citizens is blatent disregard for transparency and not filing a formal complaint is also against the law. When will these people get it? Oh and how about that Mary Osterman??
The rule of law is dead at The City of Racine. It is operating contrary to the law and has become a criminal organization.
Look at the Walker Scandal.
Emails show Scott Walker blurred campaign, county government lines
In the JS article, the Open Records Law of Wisconsin is discussed:
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has noted in the state's compliance guide for responding to public records requests that emails from personal accounts must be turned over if they relate to government business.
That is just one of many requirements, the 81 page PDF from the Attorney General's office is available HERE.
From page 55:
XIII.Enforcement and Penalties.
A. Mandamus. The public records law encourages assertion of the right to access.
1.If an authority withholds a record or part of a record, or delays granting access to a record or part of a record after a written request for disclosure is made, the requester may:
a. Bring an action for mandamus asking a court to order release of the record; or
b. Submit a written request to the
district attorney of the county where the record is located or
to the Attorney General requesting that an action for mandamus be brought asking the court to order release of the record to the requester
From Page 56:
B. Penalties available on mandamus.
1. Attorneys’ fees, damages of not less than $100.00, and other actual costs shall be awarded to a
requester who prevails in whole or in substantial part in a mandamus action concerning access to a record under Wis.Stat.§19.35(1)(a).
Wis. Stat.§19.37(2)(a)
But just face it, The City of Racine has morphed into a criminal organization that is openly racketeering. It's time for Law Enforcement to begin arresting City Officials because they are violating and flaunting the law.
Dickert will just issue another Executive Order and claim the city doesn't have to honor open records request. I wonder how his yellow tie will look with a blaze orange shirt?
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