Walker administration ignores open records requests

July 8 --- County Executive Scott Walker is taking a Harley trip this summer, but his office does not want to say how it will be funded.

storyhill.net has repeatedly sought information from Walker's office, but thus far has not been given the information sought. Two open records requests filed by storyhill.net on May 14 and June 9 have been ignored. storyhill.net filed another request Thursday.

To read the correspondence record, click here.

Walker announced in May that he would tour Wisconsin and nearby states as part of his "Grow Milwaukee County Plan." Since Walker is widely believed to be interested in a run for governor, however, the trip could have political purposes as well.

The Walker administration has previously played fast and loose with the open records law, according to Thursday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Walker admitted that his administration provided an incomplete response to an open records request filed by challenger David Riemer before the spring election.

The records released by Walker disguised the fact that he did not seek pension waivers from his appointees until after Riemer asked for an copies of the waivers in February.

To read the JS story, click here.

Full disclosure: storyhill.net editor Gretchen Schuldt was a Riemer campaign contributor.