Wisconsin’s Open Records Law of 1917 ensures its people the ability to find, acquire, and utilize records kept by government bodies, which includes arrest records, court public records, marriage and divorce certificates, and records of traffic transgressions, and this legal right also includes the residents of Butternut. All applicable information about the multitude of happenings of police officers, local courts, and local government are incorporated into these records, and generally are assumed public unless officially redacted. These laws provide the people of America, and Butternut, the power to examine and comprehend their legal rights, the precedents that led to those rights, and when those rights are infringed upon, which in turn results in a more free and transparent society for all.