WIREDATA, INC., Plaintiff-Respondent,
v.
VILLAGE OF SUSSEX and Village of Sussex Custodian, Defendants-Co-Appellants,
Grota Appraisals, L.L.C., Michael L. Grota and Assessment Technologies of WI, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellants.
WIREdata, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Village of Thiensville, Grota Appraisals, L.L.C., Michael L. Grota, and Assessment Technologies of WI, L.L.C., Defendants-Respondents.
WIREdata, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
City of Port Washington and Matthies Assessments, Inc., Defendants-Respondents,
American Family Insurance Company, Intervenor.
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Oral Argument November 14, 2006.
Opinion Filed January 3, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
On behalf of the defendants-appellants and defendants-respondents Gota Appraisals, Michael Grota and Assessment Technologies of WI, L.L.C., the cause was submitted on the briefs of and oral argument by Daniel R. Johnson of Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.C., Milwaukee.
On behalf of the defendants-co-appellants and defendants-respondents Village of Sussex and Village of Sussex Custodian and City of Port Washington, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Raymond J. Pollen and Erin Fay of Crivello, Carlson & Mentkowski, S.C., Milwaukee. There was oral argument by Erin Fay.
On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant and plaintiff-respondent WIREdata, Inc., the cause was submitted on the briefs of Alan H. Deutch and Emily Canedo of Deutch Law Offices, SC, Fox Point. There was oral argument by Alan Deutch.
On behalf of the defendants-respondents Village of Thiensville, the cause was submitted on the brief of Steven M. Cain and Deborah S.R. Hoffmann of Housemann & Feind, L.L.P., Grafton. There was oral argument by Steven M. Cain.
On behalf of the defendants-respondents Matthies Assessments, Inc., the cause was submitted on the brief of and oral argument by Maile E. Beres of Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen, S.C., Milwaukee.
Nonparty briefs were filed by Jennifer L. Peterson of LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn, Madison, for Attorneys for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council; Daniel M. Olson of League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Madison; and Andrew T. Phillips of Stadler, Centofanti & Phillips, S.C., Mequon, for Attorneys for Wisconsin Counties Association.
Before BROWN, NETTESHEIM and ANDERSON, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.
¶ 1 ANDERSON, J.
Nearly six years ago, WIREdata, Inc. filed open records requests with the three municipalities before us in this appeal. WIREdata sought the property assessment records in the format created and maintained by the municipalities' independent contractor assessors in a computer database. We hold that the open records law allows WIREdata the opportunity to access that database in order to examine and copy the property assessment records. Therefore...
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