Public Records Requests

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The Rock County Communications Center is the custodian of 911 communications-related records for all Rock County Law Enforcement and Fire Department agencies.

The Communications Center will abide by state law and user agency policies when releasing records and must receive approval from the agency prior to release of records.

Note: The Communications Center does not have access to police, fire or EMS reports. Reports must be obtained from the department directly. Click here for agency listings and contact information.

For questions, please call us at 608-757-5100. Public records requests for the Communications Center can be submitted by mail, email or in-person.

To expedite requests, citizens can complete the form below and e-mail it directly to Administrative Professional Faith Quinlan, who will handle them in the order in which they are received.

Public Records Request Form

Records request exceeding $5.00 require prepayment. The Rock County 911 Center also charges the actual, necessary, and direct costs for copies of records, which are established as follows:

  • Location costs. When the cost of locating a record exceeds $50.00, the actual, necessary, and direct cost of locating the record will be charged. See Wis. Stat. § 19.35(3)(c).
  • Copying costs. $0.15 per page for the copying of customary and ordinary 8½ by 11 hard copy records. The requestor may request the copying of a large volume of records on an expedited basis by a bonded copying service in which case if approved by the Department, the requestor would pay the rate charged by the service.
  • IT costs. The County charges $95.00 per hour for the production of a computer record which is not in a readily comprehensible form to obtain the information from the computer database and assemble and reduce such information to written form on paper.
  • Digital formats. The actual cost of purchasing a new digital storage media will be charged to the requestor. Due to security reasons, digital storage media provided by the requestor cannot be used.
  • Mailing costs. The actual, necessary and direct cost of mailing or shipping of copies of records shall be paid by the requestor.

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