Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on Feb 15.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court could soon rule in a lawsuit brought more than a year ago challenging the state’s ability to release information on businesses linked to COVID-19 cases.
The state Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in the case, filed in October 2020 by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state’s largest business organization, after the state Department of Health Services announced plans that summer to release information pertaining to positive COVID-19 cases at businesses in order to comply with public records requests from media outlets.
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“My client requested these records almost two years ago now, the government custodian agrees that the records should be released, and yet the plaintiffs have been able, without ever proving yet that the release of these records would be unlawful, to delay that release for over a year and a half,” said attorney Thomas Kamenick, president and founder of the Wisconsin Transparency Project, which is representing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the case.
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