2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO 2001 ASSEMBLY BILL 175
April 3, 2001 - Offered by Representative Powers.
AB175-ASA1,1,3 1An Act to create 19.32 (1bg), (1dm) (2g) and (4), 19.356 and 40.07 (4) of the
2statutes; relating to: access to public employee personnel records and certain
3other public records containing personally identifiable information.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB175-ASA1, s. 1 4Section 1. 19.32 (1bg), (1dm), (2g) and (4) of the statutes are created to read:
AB175-ASA1,1,75 19.32 (1bg) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by an authority,
6other than an individual holding a local public office or a state public office, or any
7individual who is employed by an employer other than an authority.
AB175-ASA1,1,8 8(1dm) "Local public office" has the meaning given in s. 19.42 (7w).
AB175-ASA1,1,10 9(2g) "Record subject" means an individual about whom personally identifiable
10information is contained in a record.
AB175-ASA1,1,12 11(4) "State public office" has the meaning given in s. 19.42 (13), but does not
12include a position identified in s. 20.923 (6) (f) to (gm).
AB175-ASA1, s. 2
1Section 2. 19.356 of the statutes is created to read:
AB175-ASA1,2,6 219.356 Notice to record subject; right of action. (1) Except as authorized
3in this section or as otherwise provided by statute, no authority is required to notify
4a record subject prior to providing to a requester access to a record containing
5information pertaining to that record subject, and no person is entitled to judicial
6review of the decision of an authority to provide a requester with access to a record.
AB175-ASA1,2,12 7(2) (a) Except as provided in par. (b) and except as otherwise required by law,
8an authority shall, before permitting access and within 72 hours after making a
9decision to permit access to a record, notify any record subject to whom the record
10pertains, either by certified mail with return receipt signed by the addressee or by
11personally serving the notice on the record subject, if the record contains any of the
12following:
AB175-ASA1,2,1613 1. Information concerning the authority's investigation into a disciplinary
14matter relating to an employee or a possible violation by an employee of a policy of
15the employee's employer, or of a statute, rule, regulation, or ordinance or in
16connection with the employee's employment.
AB175-ASA1,2,2017 2. Information prepared or provided by an employer concerning the home
18address or telephone number, or the social security account number, of an employee
19of that employer, if the employee expressly requests that the authority not provide
20access to that information.
AB175-ASA1,3,221 3. Information relating to one or more employees that is used by the authority
22or by the employer of the employees for staff management planning or employee
23evaluation, including employee performance evaluations, judgments or
24recommendations concerning future salary adjustments or other employee wage

1treatments, management employee bonus plans, promotions, job assignments,
2letters of reference, or other comments or ratings relating to individual employees.
AB175-ASA1,3,43 4. Information pertaining to an employee's employment examination, except
4an examination score if access to that score is not otherwise prohibited.
AB175-ASA1,3,95 (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to an authority who provides access to a record
6pertaining to an employee to the employee who is the subject of the record or to his
7or her representative to the extent required under s. 103.13 or to a collective
8bargaining representative to the extent required to fulfill a duty to bargain or
9pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement under ch. 111.
AB175-ASA1,3,11 10(3) The notice under sub. (2) (a) shall briefly describe the requested record and
11include a description of the rights of the record subject under this section.
AB175-ASA1,3,14 12(4) Within 5 days after receipt of a notice under sub. (2) (a), any record subject
13may provide written notification to the authority of his or her intent to seek a court
14order restraining the authority from providing access to the requested record.
AB175-ASA1,3,19 15(5) Within 10 days after receipt of a notice under sub. (2) (a), any record subject
16may commence an action seeking a court order to restrain the authority from
17providing access to the requested record. If a record subject commences such an
18action, the record subject shall name the authority as a defendant. The record
19subject shall also join the requester as a party to the action under s. 803.03.
AB175-ASA1,4,4 20(6) An authority shall not provide access to a requested record within 12 days
21of sending a notice pertaining to that record under sub. (2) (a). In addition, if the
22record subject commences an action under sub. (5), the authority shall not provide
23access to the requested record during pendency of the action. If the record subject
24appeals or petitions for review of a decision of the court or the time for appeal or
25petition for review of a decision adverse to the record subject has not expired, the

1authority shall not provide access to the requested record until any appeal is decided,
2until the period for appealing or petitioning for review expires, until a petition for
3review is denied, or until the authority receives written notice from the record subject
4that an appeal or petition for review will not be filed, whichever occurs first.
AB175-ASA1,4,9 5(7) If the record subject demonstrates that the harm to his or her privacy or
6reputational interests caused by disclosure of the information contained in the
7requested record outweighs the public interest in disclosure of that information, the
8court shall restrain the authority from providing access to that record under s. 19.35
9(1).
AB175-ASA1,4,15 10(8) The court shall not grant any request by a requester to delay the
11proceedings. The court shall issue a decision within 10 days after the filing of the
12summons and complaint and proof of service of the summons and complaint upon the
13defendant and the requester, unless a party demonstrates cause for extension of this
14period. In any event, the court shall issue a decision within 30 days after those filings
15are complete.
AB175-ASA1,4,18 16(9) If a party appeals a decision of the court under sub. (8), the court of appeals
17shall grant precedence to the appeal over all other matters not accorded similar
18precedence by law.
AB175-ASA1, s. 3 19Section 3. 40.07 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
AB175-ASA1,4,2120 40.07 (4) Section 19.356 does not apply to any request for information described
21in this section.
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