Clark County, IL. (ECWd) - The invoices below were presented for payment at the July 2015 Board of Commissioners meeting for the Clark County Park District. This is not the complete listing of invoices to verify the claim of "tens of thousands" spent on FOIA in...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Just read a posting on "Fans of Megan Fox" facebook page and can verify the claims held within it in their dealings with the Orland Park Public Library ("OPPL"). It was an interesting read and is typical of what we see...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - I received confirmation from the Illinois Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor that the Clark County Park District has received another letter of inquiry as to why they cannot seem to answer requests for public records or otherwise comply with state...
College of DuPage (ECWD) - "Because we've always done it this way" is not a valid excuse! The Daily Herald quotes Dave Carlin, former College of DuPage board chairman and one-term college trustee, as saying that Breuder's contract "has always had an automatic rollover provision in it.,...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - According to a FOIA dump that was forwarded to me this evening, the Orland Park Public Library has officially stated that their marketing/information officer, Bridget Bittman, is no longer employed with them. [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2226972-fox-foia-08-03-2015-56-response-1/annotations/234613.js" ] In recent months, Ms. Bittman had filed a...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - After reading an email chain about how a determination was made that the Orland Park Public Library could no longer redact certain items from FOIA requests that pertained to complaints filed with the library, and the library's refusal to provide the...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has inquired about another alleged Freedom Of Information Act violation against the Clark County Park District. This makes the 17th complaint in the past 3 weeks, where allegations are that Charity Murphy simply refuses to...
Edgar County, IL. (ECWd) - Scott Barrett "I've been fortunate to serve as Chief Deputy Coroner of Edgar County under Pete for the last five years. I've learned a lot from him. As many of you know, he has decided to not seek reelection and because of...
Oliver, IL. (ECWd) - I requested copies of the May and June 2015 Clark-Edgar Rural Water District meeting minutes to compare them with the audio I had received in a previous FOIA request. I requested them because I had the suspicion that they would not accurately reflect...
OLIVER, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark-Edgar Rural Water District held a meeting on June 15, 2015. During the meeting, the agenda item for "Line of Credit" was discussed in length by none other than the Vice-President of Commercial Lending of Old National Bank in Marshall, and...
