College of DuPage (ECWd) - This is related to the September 25, 2014 College of DuPage Board of Trustees meeting in which I filed an Open Meetings Act complaint with the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor (complaint and AG's Letter). This complaint is: 2014 PAC...
VERMILION CO. (ECWd) - Recently, Steve Ambrose, Board Certified INCE member, completed his review of the March 2014 California Ridge (Vermilion County, Illinois) InvEnergy Wind Turbine IPCB Noise Compliance Study performed and submitted by Mike Hankard and Dr. Paul Schomer on behalf of InvEnergy. . Mr. Ambrose was...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - In the HB 3796 veto override vote that sought to further limit access to public records, Senators Chapin Rose and Dale Righter both voted "NO" today, and we appreciate that vote! A partial "Wall of Shame" is at the bottom of this article...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Once again, failure to follow the Freedom of Information Act, failure to provide responsive public records to the person requesting the records. This is the 7th FOIA civil suit against Arcola Township. You can read it below, but the main problem is that Arcola...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The Ferris Wheel never stops with Robert Breuder, current President of College of DuPage. The first exposure of the now famous "House Account Ten" (10) was in this article. After reporting on those events, we continued to dig. A house account used by...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - While researching other matters pertaining to the College of DuPage, I came across a rather humorous set of minutes. Humorous because it is clear our higher educational institutions not only understand the law, but actually apply it properly. Humorous because our own State's...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Board held their mandatory organizational meeting today, December 1, 2014. During the meeting the Board voted and passed the following: - County Clerk Griffith presided over the meeting until a Temporary Chairman was elected by the board. - Ben Jenness was nominated...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - In the November issue of "COD This Week", written by the President of the College of DuPage, Robert Breuder, it raised some serious questions and concerns. Specifically, in the Rumor section of the newsletter where Breuder makes a claim that he has a...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Orland Park Public Library's marketing and public relations director, Bridget Bittman, has filed a civil suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago claiming "defamation per se, false light, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and [civil] assault" where she believes the defendants...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Since December is almost upon us, and the Hearing/Trial date is on December 16, 2014 for case numbers: 2013-MR-53, and 2014-MR-16, 17, and 20, I thought I would provide an update on how things have been progressing so far. (click here for...
