ARCOLA, IL (ECWd) - After review a recent FOIA request from Arcola Township, one very telling item stuck out like a sore thumb. That "sore thumb" is a written statement by Mark T. Petty, Attorney for Arcola Township, in which he said "...
ARCOLA Twp. (ECWd) - The township responded (bottom of page or click here to read it now) to the AG's inquiry, 2013 PAC 25511, into whether documents were improperly withheld. In a previous article, we pointed out the fact that the Twp had failed to provide documents...
FIPHD (ECWd) - One of the first items we asked for in our FOIAs, back in March of 2013, to the Ford-Iroquois County Health department was a copy of the personel policy, ethics rules or any other rules and regulations approved by the Public Health Board...
FORD-IROQUOIS CO. (ECWd) - Incompetence or disregard for the rules? That is the question one must ask as it relates to Julie Clark and her inability to do her job. I don't know if it's genetic, or something in the water, but the pattern of wrong doing...
FORD CO. (ECWd) - It's a sad day when it takes almost a year to remove an inept public official who clearly doesn't know how to be honest, and in fact takes steps to deceive people and deflect attention from himself. Corbett's letter insinuating that a nurse...
TERRE HAUTE, IN. (ECWd) - We have an update on the Chris Gill situation in which this former Paris police officer was arrested by federal marshalls. He recently plead guilty to misdemeanor aggravated domestic violence.. This means that he can never again hold a position of power as...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - Keeping in tune with the past eight or nine months, the Edgar County Airport manager, Mr. Jimmy Wells, has once again "misled" the very people that employ him. With the amount of "misinformation" and "inconsistencies" coming out of his office, you would think he...
Kansas School District 3 in Kansas, Illinois is having a regularly scheduled public meeting on the 21st of August at 6: pm. What appears to be of major interest for many is the claimed report by a citizen circulating the flyers is that the board is...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - This is an update from the Edgar County Board's December 3, 2012 "Organizational Meeting", a Special Meeting as defined in the Open Meetings Act (OMA) and the Counties Code of Illinois. A complaint was filed in regards to this meeting alleging that it violated...
DEWITT CO. (ECWd) - During "bill payment" at the DeWitt County Board Meeting on Aug 15th, a board member questioned the validity of a bill presented for payment. The bill in question was a credit card assigned to the Probation/Drug Court Officer. It's not that an...
