Milwaukee Teachers' Education Ass'n v. Milwaukee Board of School Directors

¶1. The issue in this case is whether public employees are entitled to de novo judicial review under Woznicki v. Erickson, 202 Wis. 2d 178, 549 N.W.2d 699 (1996), when a records custodian who is not a district attorney decides to release information from the employees' personnel records in response to a request made under Wiscon*782sin's open records law, Wis. Stat. §§ 19.31-.39 (1995-96).1 We hold that the de novo judicial review we recognized in Woznicki applies in all cases in which a record custodian decides to disclose information implicating the privacy and/or reputational interests of an…