By: Attorney Sven W. Strutz – Weld Riley, S.C.
Public records requests are a bit like the Whopper. Vintage Burger King commercials featured the slogan “have it your way.” An accompanying jingle went something like this: “hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us.” It is now clear that, under Wisconsin’s public records law, a person making a “special order” for public records — i.e. records in a specifically identified or native electronic format—is entitled to have that request honored.
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