Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) – This morning a Winnebago County Judge ordered all candidates for elected offices in Pecatonica Township to be placed on the ballot. Within the order, the judge stated the township clerk was “terribly misguided,” acted arbitrarily and abused her discretion. We
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) – This morning a Winnebago County Judge ordered all candidates for elected offices in Pecatonica Township to be placed on the ballot. Within the order, the judge stated the township clerk was “terribly misguided,” acted arbitrarily and abused her discretion. We
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) – While listening to Friday’s court hearing in Winnebago County related to the Pecatonica Township Clerk’s decertification of certain candidates, it was clear to us that this type of issue needs legislative intervention. The question needing addressed in the legislature is
Shelby Co (ECWd) – Nicholas Banning sued “SHELBY COUNTY, SHELBY COUNTY SHERIFF BRIAN MCREYNOLDS, DON KOONCE, ADVANCED CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE, INC.,CWENTON WILLIAMS, TONYA ATTEBERRY, DEVON DURBIN, MEGAN WARNER, MELISSA HAYNES, BRANDON GATTON, CHRIS ZAKOWSKI, DAINE BURKHEAD, KELLY ADAMS, and JACQUELINE CLAYTON”, due to their actions/inactions during
Champaign Co. (ECWd) -, The Mahomet Township Road District Highway Commissioner Chris Doenitz appears to have been put on notice by the Attorney General Public Integrity Bureau (AG PIB) after numerous alleged bidding violations took place. A request for all bid publications between May 1,
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) – A Federal Grand Jury has issued another subpoena to the Village of Dolton requesting records of Mayor Tiffany Henyard and others, as part of an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of Henyard while she has been serving a village mayor
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Champaign Co., Ill. (ECWd)- Over the years we have exposed more fraud related to handwritten timecards than imaginable. Time Card Tuesday comes to mind as one of the worst payroll issues we have seen which was by the Algonquin Township Road District. When a push
Shelbyville, Ill. (ECWd) – After last month’s county board approval of a cash-rent lease (more on that later) of the Shelby County Farm to the alleged highest bidder, a private farmer, both the county and the farmer entered into and signed a lease for the
Mahomet Township, Ill. (ECWd) – Mahomet Township’s attorney, Mr. Michael A. Kraft, thinks he can demand that previously provided records under FOIA be destroyed, those emails deleted, and prohibit the FOIA requester from providing those records to anyone else. See his email: As set forth
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) – Cody Brands filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Shelby County and its dive team on December 23, 2024. Mr. Brands is an associate member of The Coalition Opposing Governmental Secrecy (“COGS”), where ECW is a founding member. More
Clarksdale, Mississippi (ECWd) – A few days ago, a Mississippi Judge signed a restraining order which ordered the Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial from its online locations, because the city of Clarksdale had filed a defamation suit against the newspaper in relation to
