Brad Stern is the County Attorney in Washington County, Wisconsin, where he has implemented several technical improvements to the county’s processes since he was appointed in 2017. Brad identified a problem in Wisconsin’s open records laws – requesters working under the law are due a response from the government “as soon as practicable and without delay.” This lack of specificity, Brad found, made it easy for open records requests to be deprioritized and lost. To fix this, he worked with his county’s IT department to build a database for tracking received records requests, the progress of records searches, and how long the searches take. Brad modeled the database after a prior project tracking termination of parental rights cases. When he’s not improving the county’s use of technology, he is a singer and guitarist.