{"id":9679,"date":"2012-11-02T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2012-11-02T00:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T07:34:34","slug":"in-legal-settlement-alec-connected-wi-republicans-concede-they-cannot-evade-turning-over-official-records-by-placing-them-in-their-private-email-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9679","title":{"rendered":"In Legal Settlement, ALEC-Connected WI Republicans Concede They Cannot Evade Turning Over Official Records by Placing Them in Their Private Email Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ShutdownAlec.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), which had <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9214\">previously filed<\/a> an ethics complaint against 43 Wisconsin state legislators, alleging that their relationship with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alec.org\/\">American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)<\/a> violated the Badger State&#8217;s ethics and lobbying laws, announced that they, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&#038;b=8281551\">together with Common Cause<\/a>, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prwatch.org\/node\/11828\">prevailed<\/a> in a separate lawsuit filed against five Republican state legislators whom they alleged sought to conceal ALEC-related records by placing them in their personal email accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/signed_agreement_10_29.pdf\">formal settlement agreement [PDF]<\/a>, the five Republican legislators acknowledged that they were not relieved of their obligation under Wisconsin&#8217;s Public Records law to provide such public records, even if the records were located within their personal email account.  They agreed to provide the requested records and to reimburse CMD and Common Cause for $2,519.50 in attorney&#8217;s fees and costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), which had previously filed an ethics complaint against 43 Wisconsin state legislators, alleging that their relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) violated the Badger State&#8217;s ethics and lobbying laws, announced that they, together with Common Cause, have prevailed in a separate lawsuit filed against five Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,532,300,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alec","category-republicans","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}