Program Chairs:
Peter J. Block – Also presenting
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Julie P. Wilson
Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office
Milwaukee
Presenters:
Shunta Boston-Smith
Sun Prairie Police Department
Sun Prairie
Lacey Cochart
City of Green Bay
Green Bay
Nicholas P. DeSiato
Milwaukee
Paul M. Ferguson
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Madison
Makda Fessahaye
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Saveon D. Grenell
Buelow, Vetter, Buikema, Olson & Vliet, LLC
Waukesha
Thomas Kamenick
Wisconsin Transparency Project
Port Washington
Jill Kawala
Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee
Al Kesner
Wauwatosa City Attorney’s Office
Wauwatosa
Ashley Luthern
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee
Jim Owczarski
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee
Sheila Thobani
Buelow, Vetter, Buikema, Olson & Vliet, LLC
Waukesha
Christa Westerberg
Pines Bach LLP
Madison
8:00 a.m. : Registration
8:30 a.m. : Why do we have Public Record and Open Meeting Laws?
- History of these laws
- Government transparency
Thomas Kamenick
8:45 a.m. : Public Records Updates
- Who do these laws apply to?
- What constitutes a “record”
- Exceptions to release
- Permissible fees
Thomas Kamenick
9:20 a.m. : Processing Requests
- Considerations regarding the location of the request
- Responsibility to redact
- Responses and timing
- Other resources for assisting with the response process
Paul M. Ferguson
10:00 a.m. : Break
10:15 a.m. : Specialized knowledge and processes
- Develop different processes for different clients
- Dealing with large requests
- Issues with high volume offices
- When can you charge fees
Lacey Cochart, Makda Fessahaye (moderator), Saveon D.Grenell, Jill Kawala, Sheila Thobani
10:50 a.m. : Law Enforcement Records
- Example area where attorneys and records authorities develop those specialized processes and knowledge
Peter J. Block (moderator), Shunta Boston-Smith, Nicholas P. DiSiato, Al Kesner, Ashley Luthern
11:30 a.m. : Recent Trends in Public Record/Open Meeting Issues
- Elections and elections investigations
- Suits by and against legislators
Christa Westerberg
12:10.m. : Lunch (on your own)
1:10 p.m. : Overview of Mandamus Litigation
- Summons/Complaint vs. Petition
- Attorney Fees
- Potential Remedies
- Timing of hearings
- Oversight entities
Christa Westerberg
1:30 p.m. : Open Meeting Basics
- Definition of a governmental body
- Requirements for notice
- Reasonable accessibility
- Open v. Closed Meetings
- Voting, records, participation, recording and enforcement
Paul Ferguson
2:30 p.m. : Break
2:45 p.m. : Robert’s Rules of Order
Jim Owczarski
3:45 p.m. : Case Law Update
Peter J. Block
4:25 p.m. : Program Concludes
Following program start times, webcast replay schedule may vary slightly from above listed times.
- Get a primer on Wisconsin’s open meetings laws and learn when meetings can be closed
- Uncover the specialized processes required for requesting records from law enforcement
- Understand the interplay between state and federal public records laws
- Receive a refresher for government lawyers on Robert’s Rules of Order
- Learn about significant case law updates from the past year in less than one hour
- Confidently advise clients receiving and processing public records requests
- Government lawyers
- Municipal attorneys
- Administrative & local government lawyers
- Criminal law attorneys
- Civil rights lawyers
- Media lawyers
- General practitioners
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