By Jonathan Anderson, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council
If you want as much information as possible about COVID-19 in your community, you may find it troubling that the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) does not name which schools have COVID-19 cases.
Go to the agency’s Facility-Wide Public Health Investigations website and you’ll instead find aggregate numbers of case investigations for de-identified “educational facilities,” which cover daycare centers, schools, colleges and universities.
The state knows the identities of schools, so why conceal them? I asked DHS spokesperson Jennifer Miller, who said in an email that her agency defers to local authorities to “make the best decisions for their communities.”
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