Definitions

19.32 Definitions. As used in ss. 19.32 to 19.39: (1) “Authority” means any of the following having custody of a record: a state or local office, elective official, agency, board, commission, committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by the constitution or by any law, ordinance, rule or order; a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation except for the Bradley center sports and entertainment corporation; a special purpose district; any court of law; the assembly or senate; a nonprofit corporation which receives more than 50 percent of its funds from a county or a municipality, as defined in s. 59.001 (3), and which provides services related to public health or safety to the county or municipality; a university police department under s. 175.42; or a formally constituted subunit of any of the foregoing. (1b) “Committed person” means a person who is committed under ch. 51, 971, 975 or 980 and who is placed in an inpatient treatment facility, during the period that the person’s placement in the inpatient treatment facility continues. (1bd) “Elective official” means an individual who holds an office that is regularly filled by vote of the people. (1bg) “Employee” means any individual who is employed by an authority, other than an individual holding local public office or a state public office, or any individual who is employed by an employer other than an authority. (1c) “Incarcerated person” means a person who is incarcerated in a penal facility or who is placed on probation and given confinement under s. 973.09 (4) as a condition of placement, during the period of confinement for which the person has been sentenced. (1d) “Inpatient treatment facility” means any of the following: (a) A mental health institute, as defined in s. 51.01 (12). (c) A facility or unit for the institutional care of sexually violent persons specified under s. 980.065. (d) The Milwaukee County mental health complex established under s. 51.08. (1de) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s.