{"id":6608,"date":"2011-02-23T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:52:48","slug":"wi-briefing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6608","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Briefing Book&#8221; on WI Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read online the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lc\/publications\/briefingbook\/2011_12briefingbook.pdf\">Wisconsin Legislator Briefing Book<\/a>&#8221; for 2011-2012, prepared by the state <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lc\/\">Legislative Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/wilegbb.jpg\" alt=\"Legislative Briefing Book cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/><strong>This reference is full of information citizens can use<\/strong> to learn about the state budgeting process, the legislative process, the Open Meetings Law, open records requests, and backgrounds of selected segments of state government, including agriculture, state-tribal relations, privacy, criminal justice, and more. You can learn who must register as a sex offender, when a juvenile court may waive a juvenile into adult court, how the state has financially supported K-12 education, etc. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, at the beginning of each legislative session the Legislative Fiscal Bureau prepares <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/info.html\">Informational Papers<\/a> that describe various state programs. Examples include &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/30_Charter%20Schools.pdf\">Charter Schools<\/a>,&#8221; a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/35_UW%20Overview.pdf\">University of Wisconsin System Overview<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/36_UW%20Tuition.pdf\">University of Wisconsin Tuition<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/89_Tribal%20Gaming%20in%20Wisconsin.pdf\">Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/Informationalpapers\/93_State%20Programs%20for%20Veterans.pdf\">State Programs for Veterans<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read online the &#8220;Wisconsin Legislator Briefing Book&#8221; for 2011-2012, prepared by the state Legislative Council. This reference is full of information citizens can use to learn about the state budgeting process, the legislative process, the Open Meetings Law, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/6608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2768,35,38],"tags":[7098,783,7090,7100,7099,311,7097],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-wisconsin","category-infogov","category-online-the-library","tag-budget-process","tag-government-info","tag-state-government","tag-university-of-wisconsin","tag-uws","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9460,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}