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Sandy Weidner(Photo: Mark Balwinski)
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The
unusual case, now on appeal but also absent from the Court of Appeals
web-based index, has only come to light because a maverick Racine Common
Council member got tired of what she calls growing secrecy and
concentrated power in her local government.
"To me, it’s a huge issue," said Sandy Weidner. "I’m willing to defy the judge's order that it’s sealed."
Advocates
for open government are astounded and have never heard of a public
records suit being sealed, or any kind of case without some record of
who the parties are and why it was under seal.
"Everything
I know about this case seems atrocious," said Bill Lueders, president
of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
"These
communications should never have been withheld. The trial court judge
should never have allowed this matter to be adjudicated in secret. His
decision should not have been sealed. The appellate court should not
have allowed this secrecy to extend to the appeal."
"These are low-level communications from local residents about local issues, not the Pentagon Papers," Lueders said.
Our "leaders" are lying pigs.
Readers should consider they have to read about their corrupt city from a Milwaukee newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThe Racine Journal times is a poorly managed newspaper who appears to be derelict of their free press responsibilities and complicit with the corrupt crowd.