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Wisconsin university and state DOJ drop FOIA case after accidentally releasing unredacted records

October 20, 2017December 4, 2018 Emily Goodell, Monica Kast and Madison Dudley

A Winnebago County Circuit Court judge ruled against a professor who tried to stop the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh from releasing his personnel records to student journalist Alex Nemec.

Student journalist challenges University of Wisconsin for records in investigation of professor

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August 15, 2017December 4, 2018 Shine Cho

When a professor was pulled out of a lecture and suddenly stopped teaching his other classes, Alex Nemec, a student journalist at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, filed records requests to find out why. Nemec has encountered two hurdles to accessing records, the first imposed by the University and the second by the professor himself.