A group of college reporters asked Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Wednesday for his opinion on whether Wisconsinâ??s open records and meetings laws apply to University of Wisconsin System student government.
Jonathan Anderson, editor of the UWM Post, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus newspaper, and Mark Zoromski, a UW-Milwaukee broadcast journalism instructor, and two of his students filed the 147-page request. They argued that state law mandates UW System students perform government functions, including divvying up millions of dollars in public funds each year. That means the open records and meetings laws should apply to student government, just as it does to other government entities.