Opinion No. Oag 28-83, (1983)

LINDA R. REIVITZ, Secretary Department of Health and SocialServices

Your predecessor has requested my opinion on a number of questions under the new open records law, sections 19.31 through 19.39, Stats., which went into effect on January 1 1983:

1. When an employe authors a document for his own or another's signature and the preliminary versions are reviewed by his supervisors, other employes or persons outside the Department for approval or comments, are the preliminary versions "records" under sec. 19.32 (2).

Section 19.32 (2) provides that "[r]ecord does not include drafts, notes,…