Madison Co., Ill. (ECWd) - While Debbie Ming-Mendosa was the Madison County Clerk, she permitted the IBEW Union Local 749, Carpenters Local 664, and Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 553 to use public funds, property, and credit for nonpublic purposes, which appears to be in direct conflict...
Franklin Co., Ill. (ECWd) - During internal investigations in IDOT District 9, several issues were discovered, and discipline issued to workers. The original complaint included: Timecard abuse by one individual who routinely arrived late to work, falsified his timesheet, and management was aware of it and...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - During the May 1, 2023, meeting of the newly elected Sangamon Valley Public Water District board meeting, we discussed during public comment the issue of a lame-duck contract allegedly entered into between the outgoing appointed board and Veolia for the purpose of...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Last year when we were looking to verify the IDOT gun violence story out of Franklin County, WAND was also attempting to verify it. An email produced as a result of a FOIA lawsuit we filed against IDOT indicates Governor Pritzker's Press Secretary,...
Benton, Ill (ECWd) - According to court records, the Illinois Department of Transportation and Franklin County State's Attorney have convinced the Court to seal all records of the Misdemeanor charges against former IDOT employee and current Benton City Commissioner Donald Storey through the duration of the...
Clermont, FL. (ECWd) - We have finally secured the final remaining domain name pursuant to a settlement agreement and apology letter tendered by Bonnie Kurowski. It is: fightforil.com and was part of the federal lawsuit settlement. This one took us a few weeks to obtain as...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - Copies of the verified petitions for Orders or Protection / No Stalking Orders indicate allegations of threats of shooting all of the newly elected water district trustees and further instances of stalking new and former trustee(s). According to the court filings in the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - During a Special Meeting of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District held on April 5, 2023, just weeks prior to a newly elected board taking over the District from the appointed (and lame-duck) board, it decided to place "Veolia Contract" on the...
Silvis, Ill. (ECWd) - In a previous article on our complaint to the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") against the City of Silvis, Illinois, alleging Open Meetings Act ("OMA") violations during a February 7, 2023, closed meeting in which the city's labor attorney confiscated and...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - UPDATE 5-4-2023: The Federal Appeals Court STAYED the lower federal court's injunction against enforcement of the gun/magazine ban. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, Southern District of Illinois, issued a 29-page Order for an Injunction against the state of Illinois' enforcement of the recent...
