CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A Petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court for Leave to Appeal from the Illinois Appellate Court yesterday. This is the lawsuit involving the City of Carlinville, another municipality, and a private company, opening up another private company for the purposes of contracting from the...
Southlake, TX. (ECWd) - FOX4-KDFW is reporting that two Carroll ISD School Board Trustees were indicted by a grand jury and arrested for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. They are accused of circumventing the TOMA by "communicating in a quorum" outside of an open meeting through...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Last month, after submitting a public records request, we received the disciplinary records of Paris Police Sergeant Phillip Kohlenberg, who was disciplined without formal adjudication, demoted to Patrolman and given 5 days off without pay. On October 28, 2020, Kohlenberg was placed on...
Pecatonica Township, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has issued another in a long and growing list of determinations stating that Supervisor Musso and the Pecatonica Township Board has violated state law by unlawfully restricting protected speech, many times with the Township's Attorney present at...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - According to an article on CUPerspective.org, with ample supporting documentation, the now-appointed Alderman Erick Sacks was ticketed for the destruction of city property when he allegedly hired a contractor to remove asphalt on a newly paved alley behind his house. Read the article...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - We recently published the Attorney General's opinion that Urbana recently violated the Open Meetings Act twice by their content-based prohibiting of certain public comment during meetings. We redacted the AG's opinion by blocking out the victim's home addresses and personal email addresses. The...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has issued an opinion stating that the Urbana City Council, and Mayor Marlin, violated the Open Meetings Act twice when she refused to permit a member of the public to criticize public officials/employees by name...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - From Trustee Benford: Please cancel tonight’s township board meeting requested by myself and Trustee Raga. We are cancelling the meeting because it was improperly posted with the word ”special” listed in the meeting notice. Trustee Raga and I requested a meeting under the...
Wilmington, IL. (ECWd) - We have covered the defamation lawsuit filed by Cindy Brzana against John Norton and others since it was filed because it deals with a current Wesley Township Trustee, a former appointed road commissioner, and a citizen who attended meetings. In this Motion, he...
McHenry County, IL. (ECWd) - We attended a dinner in McHenry County last night, March 26, 2021, where three candidates for Governor of Illinois discussed their candidacy. This election will take place on November 8, 2022, with the Primary election on March 15, 2022. Videos below. Gary Rabine speaks...
