Wisconsin Transparency Project, FOX6 sue Evers for emails.

Byline: Michaela Paukner, mpaukner@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Transparency Projectand Milwaukee TV station FOX6 aresuing Gov. Tony Evers for his emails. The open-records lawsuit alleges Evers is refusing to provide copies of his emails and unlawfully insisting he won't produce the emails until the TV station provides search terms.

In September, an investigative reporter atFOX6 filed a request for all of the governor's emails, his calendars and his chief of staff's emailsfor a four-week period as part of a regular "spot check" record request. Thelawsuitsays the governor's deputy chief of staff and assistant legal counsel told the reporter thatall email requests would be deniedif they didn't contain search terms. The station argues this meant requestors would have to know the contents of the emails before requesting them.

The reporter then asked for a week of emails and was met with a denial for the same reason. A...