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MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL v. MILWAUKEE

No. 2011AP1112.

815 N.W.2d 367 (2012)

2012 WI 65

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, Ben Poston and Gina Marie Barton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, City of Milwaukee Police Department and Edward A. Flynn, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 27, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiffs-appellants there were briefs (in the court of appeals) filed by Robert J. Dreps and Godfrey & Kahn, Madison, and oral argument by Robert J. Dreps .

For the defendants-respondents there was a brief (in the court of appeals) filed by Grant F. Langley , city attorney, Milwaukee and Melanie R. Swank , assistant city attorney, Milwaukee with oral argument by Melanie R. Swank .

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Claire Silverman , League of Wisconsin Municipalities for League of Wisconsin Municipalities.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Carrie Benedon , assistant attorney general for Wisconsin Department of Justice, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general, and the cause was argued by Carrie Benedon.

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Chief Justice.

¶ 1 Once again this court is asked to interpret the Wisconsin Public Records Law, Wis. Stat. §§ 19.31-.39 (2009-10).1 The issue presented is whether an authority2 may impose a fee on a requester of a public record for the actual, necessary, and direct costs incurred by the authority (including staff time) of deleting nondisclosable information included within...

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