Former SCOW Justice Patience Roggensack ordered to cough 'em up.
Not so sure about the reasoning here unless the records are sent to someone in a public office. Then it would be up to the office-holder to turn them over, wouldn't it? If she wrote a memo and filed it in a desk drawer at home, would that be subject to an Open Records request?
On Friday, Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington issued an order giving Roggensack 30 days to produce any records she has.
“Wisconsin has had and continues to have a long and storied tradition on the responsibility of open government," Remington said.
All of the former justices have a responsibility to produce records they maintain related to their work “whether they understood it or not in accepting the invitation to opine on the question presented,” he said.
Read more in this Associated Press story.
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