Platform

Government and Corporate Transparency and Accountability

• Eliminate Legislative and Executive exemptions to Wisconsin's Open Meetings Law - Wisconsin Statutes § 19.87.  The law as currently written does not apply to any partisan caucus of the senate or assembly.  Wis. Stat. § 19.87(3).  The open meetings law also does not apply where it conflicts with a rule of the Legislature, senate, or assembly.

Personal Privacy

• In so much as effects are personal belongings and the common citizen believes that his or her belongings extends to documents stored "in the cloud" or on the Internet, then Article I, §11 should be interpreted to apply to an individual's effects no matter the form, media, or location. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, electronic storage, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Reform

• The first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term. The act covered not only books, but also maps and charts. The original intent of the founders was that copyrights and patents were to "to promote the progress of science and useful arts," and not become an infinite means to lock up corporate profits.