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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 837
December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SPIROS, BEHNKE, BRANDTJEN,
CALLAHAN, DALLMAN, DITTRICH, DONOVAN, DUCHOW, EDMING, GOEBEN, KRUG,
KURTZ, MAGNAFICI, MELOTIK, NOVAK, OHNSTAD, PENTERMAN, RETTINGER,
TUSLER, VANDERMEER and WITTKE, cosponsored by Senators JAMES, FEYEN and
WANGGAARD. Referred to Committee on Government Accountability and
Oversight.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 19.35 (3) (h) of the statutes; relating to: fees for redacting
certain records of law enforcement agencies.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a government official or agency may charge a fee to a
requester of public records for the actual, necessary, and direct cost incurred to
locate, if the cost exceeds $50, copy, and mail public records in response to the
request.
This bill authorizes law enforcement and corrections agencies to charge a
requester a fee for the actual, necessary, and direct cost of redacting, whether by
pixelization or other means, recorded video content disclosed in response to a public
records request to the extent redaction is necessary to comply with applicable
constitutional, statutory, or common law.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 19.35 (3) (h) of the statutes is created to read:
19.35 (3) (h) An authority that is a law enforcement agency, as defined in s.
19.36 (8) (a) 2., may impose a fee upon a requester for the actual, necessary, and direct
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SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 837
cost of redacting, whether by pixelization or other means, recorded video content to
the extent redaction is necessary to comply with applicable constitutional, statutory,
or common law.
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