DeWitt Co., IL. (ECWd) - In a letter, the attorney defending a lawsuit against DeWitt County and some of its officers and employees, complained of "disparaging remarks" made by County Board Member Hoffman in a newspaper article (here). I read the article, and the only response...
DeWitt Co., IL. (ECWd) - Terry Hoffman, DeWitt County Board Member, has filed a federal civil rights suit against DeWitt County Sheriff Jered Shofner, Deputies Monaghan, Hardwick, and Wilford, and DeWitt County Director of Emergency Services Teresa Bennett-Hall. Hoffman had previously spent $24,021.50 defending himself of the...
DeWitt Co. (ECWd) - Terry Hoffman had never been involved in political government till about 2010. "Watch Clinton Landfill" got him involved, as did a legal tax protest regarding over levied taxing funds (which about 600 are involved with and the Clinton power plant). He became...
DEWITT CO. (ECWd) - I recently came across an "Open Letter to the Citizens of DeWitt County" from March 4, 2013 published in the DeWitt Daily News (here) in which the author, DeWitt County State's Attorney Koritz, asked the citizens to "Demand Transparency". "...
DEWITT CO. (ECWd) - In direct violation of his statutory duty, Dewitt County State's Attorney sniped at a county board board member during a public meeting with a statement worthy of his resignation, and considering he is the very person who is suppose to uphold the...
MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) - This is a common situation that we discover time and time again in nearly every public body we look at. We saw this in: -DeWitt County Probation Office (here), -Arcola Township (here), -Edgar County Housing Authority (here), -Edgar County ETSB, -Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department, -Effingham County Public Health Department, -East...
DEWITT CO. (ECWd) - After speaking to several Legislators yesterday about a FOIA expansion bill, I returned home to a letter from the Illinois Attorney General stating that the County of DeWitt was correct in denying access to the credit card receipts from the Probation Department...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Representative Brad Halbrook, 110th, is the sponsor on HB 5344, a bill design to strengthen the Freedom Of Information Act to put courts, circuit clerk, probation offices, and state's attorneys subject to FOIA. (WTYE ran a short article here). Background: In 1983, the Local...
SULLIVAN, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has determined that "further inquiry is warranted" in the request for review (complaint) I filed alleging denial of a public records request. Following an August DeWitt County Board Meeting where there was an obvious issue with a...
Dewitt Co. (ECWd) If we have said it once, we have said it a hundred times, you can't make this stuff up! Directly from the Dewitt County Policy Manual Facts: Capitol One Probation Automation statement is being managed by the County Treasurer. County funds are used to pay...
