Governor's office clamps down on certain travel, business records

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/on-politics/governor-s-office-clamps-down-on-certain-travel-business-records/article_0fa75a61-50aa-558f-a2f4-8b2264ffd621.html

Citing security concerns, Gov. Scott Walker’s office is no longer releasing information about where he stays on out-of-state trips in regularly released calendars of his past activities.

Also on the same calendars, Walker’s office is no longer disclosing the names and phone numbers of companies that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is working with on economic incentive packages.

The decision to withhold those two types of information was disclosed Friday with the release of Walker’s daily calendars from June.

According to a statement from the governor’s legal counsel, the decision to withhold that information was made after applying the balancing test under the state’s open records law. The test weighs the public’s right to government information against any potential harm to the public’s interest.

The statement noted the governor has had threats to his safety and stalking incidents in the past, and information about where he has stayed “could be used to establish patterns and predict the governor’s overnight location on future trips.”

The information about businesses meeting with WEDC was removed because legal counsel determined releasing the information could “wreak havoc” with WEDC’s mission of retaining and creating quality jobs in the state.

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Evil shirks the light even further. Paranoia sets in deeper!

[rurallib]

1. All together now - security concerns my ass.

[Scuba]

2. Challenging Rick Scott for the "Nation's Wost Governer (sic)" award.

[mokawanis]

3. "releasing information could 'wreak havoc' with WEDC's mission"

Can't have an informed public because it might weaken the WEDC's stellar performance and smart money management. I hope they let us know when Walker and the WEDC create the quarter-of-a-million jobs they used to talk about.

[unionthug777]

4. Walker Economic Disaster CORPORATION

he doesn't want anyone to see how much he's stealing from it.