The secrecy requirements, as I understand it, were devised to protect those who are under investigation, but I can see how those doing the investigation could exploit the requirement to shield their work from public scrutiny. With secrecy enforced by criminal sanctions, it’s hard to fault the Board for demanding secrecy, but that’s an absurd way to preserve “Wisconsin’s Tradition of Clean and Open Government” — to quote the mission the Government Accountability Board proudly trumpets
Via The place of secrecy within “Wisconsin’s Tradition of Clean and Open Government” @ Althouse.