Quoted: “All I can say is: Wow,” University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism instructor Kathleen Bartzen Culver said in an email to the Associated Press. “I am astonished that a local government would find it appropriate, much less legal, to threaten a news organization with prosecution for doing what they are constitutionally protected in doing — representing the public interest by seeking, analyzing and reporting information.
“For the life of me,” Culver further wrote, “I’m struggling to envision under what statute a journalist would be prosecuted for covering water test results released by local government.”