ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - After the Atlanta Library District's August 10, 2017 public meeting, I filed a Request for Review with the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor alleging the board violated the open meetings act by not publicly reciting the issue they were about to...
DECATUR, IL. (ECWd) - Doug Wolfe, I-TEAM, Investigative Reporter for WAND talked about GovPlates.com website, a special project of American Watchdogs, where people can track the registered owner of government licensed vehicles. Just type in the "U" or "M" license plate number and find out which public body...
STANFORD, IL. (ECWd) - A week or so ago we published an article (click here) showing how the McGrath Law Office, Village Attorney for Sanford, Illinois had filed false paperwork purporting to be nothing more than a Scrivener’s Error, but that changed the effective use of...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Thanks go to Diane Benjamin, BLNNEWS.COM, for her relentless pursuit of public records! Diane's pursuit of these records included her first ever lawsuit, filed in hand-written form, after the City of Bloomington and its disgraced Mayor Tari Renner unlawfully withheld public records under...
KANKAKEE, IL. (ECWd) - Dennis Rettke, Limestone Township Supervisor has resigned from office. This comes at a troubling time for Limestone Township, after several months of township residents attending meetings and lodging complaints against the Limestone Township Highway Commissioner and the Board for allowing him to conduct...
KANSAS, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Kansas, Illinois Police Department has hired a new part-time police officer. His name is Ed Motley and he comes with a little experience: 2 years in the United States Army - deployed to Vietnam 25 year of corrections experience culminating...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Enjoy! It was a hot one this year...
Northern Illinois University - (ECWd) - Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment was filed, along with the Memorandum in Support of the Motion, in the Open Meetings Act Complaint against Northern Illinois University's Board of Trustees for the actions that took place during the meeting in which...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: JR Manker [email protected] Tyson Manker Announces Exploratory Committee for Illinois Attorney General September 22, 2017 (South Jacksonville, IL) – Tyson Manker, a lifelong Illinoisan, attorney, and military combat veteran of the Iraq war, formed an exploratory committee to investigate the possibility of...
SAWYERVILLE, MACOUPIN CO., IL. (ECWd) - On September 21, 2017, a Complaint was filed in Macoupin County Circuit Court naming the Village of Sawyerville as Defendant in a public records lawsuit. It is case number 2017-MR-117. This arises out of a Freedom of Information Act request for...
