Woodstock, IL. (ECWd) - Lora Totton Schwarz, head of Technical Services and General Reference Librarian of the Woodstock Public Library has been conspiring with other library workers to violate her "mission" of safeguarding intellectual freedom - but, of course, we all know that only goes for...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park Public Library is continuing to withhold public records from Freedom Of Information Act requester, even after a $55,000 settlement against them in previous FOIA lawsuits. This time, a request was made for emails sent by OPPL employee Jason Rock,...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Orland Park Library Board returns some (but not all) of gold it took from taxpayers A few Orland Park Public Library trustees have now returned some (but not all) of the gold that they had accepted as rewards for being on this...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General’s Office has launched an inquiry into more law-breaking by the problem-child Orland Park Public Library Board of Trustees. This time, the Public Access Counselor "PAC" is investigating an allegation that they had closed and locked the doors...
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee - UWM (ECWd) - This case study (bottom of page) is from UWM, who is studying the OPPL challenge as a case study. They have a lot of our articles on the OPPL challenge in their archives for academic research. * We came across this...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - On August 27, 2015, attorneys for Fox/DuJan filed their response in opposition to Bittman's motion to dismiss countersuit. It is a good read, so grab a cup of coffee and enjoy. What was filed today was their response to Bittman's motion to...
Glenview, IL. (ECWd) - After receiving a tip of an unusual FOIA response from the Glenview Public Library, I submitted my own to see if the same response came back to me. It did. The Glenview Library responded to my Freedom of Information Act request for public records...
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...
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...
