Meetings of governmental bodies
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 200 Wis. 2d 585 - State Ex Rel. Auchinleck v. Town of LaGrange (1996)
Most recently applied in State Ex Rel. Krueger v. Appleton Area School District Board of Education (June 2017)
1975 c. 426; 1997 a. 123
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Every meeting of a governmental body shall be preceded by public notice as provided in s. 19.84, and shall be held in open session. At any meeting of a governmental body, all discussion shall be held and all action of any kind, formal or informal, shall be initiated, deliberated upon and acted upon only in open session except as provided in s. 19.85.
(2) During a period of public comment under s. 19.84 (2), a governmental body may discuss any matter raised by the public.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.