Rock County officials are beginning work on a countywide nondisclosure agreement policy after supervisors approved two resolutions aimed at protecting public access to information about hyperscale data centers. The resolutions passed at the Sept. 24 County Board meeting, where residents urged supervisors to keep data-center discussions open to public scrutiny. One resident said the issue should be brought forward so community members can discuss it. One resolution directs the county administrator to develop rules governing NDAs for all county staff and recognizes that such agreements are commonly used in business. The other instructs county employees not to sign agreements that would prevent them from sharing information with the public or elected officials about efforts to attract or build hyperscale data centers. The measures set a policy-making process in motion; they do not themselves establish a final county policy. The administrator and county corporation counsel are to prepare a draft for review by a staff committee before it returns to the full board. District 18 Supervisor RJ Sutterlin said he expects the process to reach the board by the end of March. Sutterlin said the intent is to preserve the county’s ability to use NDAs in other business dealings while treating data-center agreements differently. A final policy could prohibit county employees from signing NDAs with data-center developers. The debate comes amid wider concerns about confidentiality agreements used in negotiations over large data-center projects. A Wisconsin Watch investigation published earlier in 2026 found that at least four Wisconsin communities had signed NDAs connected to billion-dollar data centers, including Meta’s artificial intelligence data center in Beaver Dam. For Rock County residents, the pending policy could determine how much information county officials may share as they discuss potential hyperscale data-center development. The board has not yet adopted the policy’s final terms.