By Jonathan Anderson, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council
In May, as the state Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee considered spending far less on education than what was proposed by Gov. Tony Evers, Sheila Plotkin started filing public records requests.
Plotkin asked most members of the Joint Finance Committee for correspondence they had received from Wisconsin residents about education funding. All but one provided those records for free.
The holdout was Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette), the panel’s co-chair, who wanted Plotkin to pay $100.41 for location costs.
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