Wisconsin’s Public Records Board has reversed a decision it made last year
to change the state language describing transitory records, reverting back
to its 2010 definition.

The board voted Monday afternoon to abandon new language it approved in
August, which board members said sought to clarify what kinds of
communications by public officials should be discarded and what kinds
retained.

Matt Blessing, the chairman of the board, and an archivist for the
Wisconsin Historical Society, said the board will come up with a process
for how to better update the language in its original transitory records
description, which has been in place since 2010.


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MADISON, Wis. — After a widespread backlash, the Wisconsin Public Records
Board on Monday abandoned its decision to redefine a category of records in
a way that could have kept many of them from public view.

The board in August changed the definition of so-called transitory records,
thought to have only temporary significance. The board approved defining
such records as routine agency communications that don't relate to work or
decision-making, including scheduling emails, committee agendas, recordings
used for training and other specific examples.


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