HEMPEL v. CITY OF BARABOO

No. 03-0500.

268 Wis.2d 534 (2003)

2003 WI App 254

674 N.W.2d 38

Hal HEMPEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF BARABOO and City of Baraboo Police Department, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided November 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Aaron N. Halstead and Katy Meter Lounsbury of Shneidman, Hawks & Ehlke, S.C., Madison.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of James C. Bohl, city attorney of Baraboo.

Before Dykman, Vergeront and Higginbotham, JJ.


¶ 1. HIGGINBOTHAM, J.

Hal Hempel appeals from a circuit court order granting summary judgment in favor of the City of Baraboo and the City of Baraboo Police Department (collectively, the City) on his challenge to their denial of his open records request. Hempel, a City of Baraboo police officer, argues that the circuit court erred when it found that the public's presumptive right to disclosure of investigatory records...

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