Jobs agency pulls proposal to gag its board members
The head of the state jobs agency Wednesday pulled back on a proposal that would have prohibited board members from answering reporters’ questions and limit the kind of information the members could release to the public.
The board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. was set to consider Thursday a policy that would have barred them from talking to reporters and from releasing information they obtain from WEDC chief executive officer Mark Hogan about the agency’s operations that isn’t covered by the state’s open records law.
But after news reports about the proposal, Hogan removed it from the meeting’s agenda “based on feedback” from board members.
Under the proposed policy, if board members had shared information not covered by the open records law with anyone other than agency officials or other board members, they could have faced disciplinary measures and an internal investigation.
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