NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – Jasper County Community Unit School District #1 has violated the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), as I had previously stated, by refusing to provide the requested...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – Calling their arguments as without merit, Federal District Judge J. Phil Gilbert DENIED Jasper County School District #1’s motion to dismiss the civil rights case brought...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) – In a minor derailment last night, six cars of a train came off the tracks in Paris, Illinois just west of the Route 133 (Jasper Street)...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – Jasper County Community Unit School District #1 board member Jerry Earnest filed an amended complaint in Federal Court on May 25, 2018. Count 1 consists of...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – Once again, Jasper County School District is making up its own rules which we believe violate the letter and intent of the law. We wrote about...
...for interfering with the rights of an elected school board member. Andy Johnson, Superintendent of the Jasper County Schools, has apparently been busy violating the OMA lately, and here is...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – What is a sure sign a public board wants to hide everything from the public? They started acting like little dictators and direct police to remove...
...that Jasper County School Board held an improper closed session meeting-after-the-meeting on December 18, 2017. This stems from the incident where a school board member made a false 9-1-1 call,...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – During at least the last two Jasper County School Board meetings, their attorney, Anthony Loizzi, from Hodges Loizzi Eisenhammer Rodick & Kohn LLP, displayed a disrespectful,...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – The Jasper County Community Unit School District #1 held its February 2018 monthly board meeting, which included the introduction of the District’s 16 Illinois State Scholars....