Program Chair:
Julie P. Wilson
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Presenters:
Peter J. Block
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Eva Ennamorato
Communications Specialist - City of Wauwatosa
Wauwatosa
Paul M. Ferguson
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Madison
Alan R. Kesner
Wauwatosa City Attorney’s Office
Wauwatosa
Gregory P. Kruse
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Erin Schaffer
Milwaukee County Contracts Manager
Milwaukee
Brenda L. Yaskal
Columbia County District Attorney’s Office
Portage
8:00 a.m. : Registration
8:30 a.m. : Case Law Update
- A review of the last year’s public records and open meetings decisions including:
o Lueders v. Krug - do emails have to be provided to a requester in electronic format?
o State ex rel. Flynn v. Kemper Center - analyzed whether an organization was a quasi-governmental corporation for purposes of the public records law
o Moustakis v. Department of Justice – does a record subject who is a public official have a common law right to file a writ of mandamus challenging a record custodian’s application of the balancing test?
Peter J. Block
8:50 a.m. : Trade Secrets and Confidential Information in Public Contracts
- What records are exempted from disclosure by law?
- How do government entities balance the need to be transparent when contracting with a private company claiming trade secrets, proprietary information, or confidentiality?
- How broad is the protection on contract negotiations set forth in the open meetings law?
Peter J. Block, Paul M. Ferguson, Gregory P. Kruse, Erin Schaffer
10:05 a.m. : Break
10:20 a.m. : Record Retention for Social Media for Small Communities
- Best practices for small communities
- Providers who offer services for preserving and archiving social media communications
Alan R. Kesner, Eva Ennamorato, Paul M. Ferguson
11:10 a.m. : The Model Municipal Record Retention Schedule
- Overview
- How it was developed
- The approval process
- How municipalities can adopt the model schedule
Paul M. Ferguson
11:30 a.m. : Prosecutorial Decision-Making
Brenda L. Yaskal
12:05 p.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule will vary slightly from above listed times.
- Gain an understanding of what records might be exempt from disclosure
- Discover best practices for preserving and archiving social media communications
- Learn how your municipality can adopt the Model Municipal Record Retention Schedule
- Receive your annual case law update
- Government lawyers
- Municipal attorneys
- Administrative & local government lawyers
- Civil rights lawyers
- Criminal lawyers
- Media law practitioners
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