ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - In another act of defiance of state law, Arcola Township has once again snubbed its nose at the Freedom Of Information Act. On April 25, at 11:38 a.m. I sent an email requesting copies of the following records: -Copy of all credit card statements...
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...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Will they ever learn? That is the million dollar question. On April 12, 2014, I submitted a Freedom Of Information Act request to the Township of Arcola requesting the following public records (pdf here): Copy of all bid notices, requests for bids, requests for...
DOUGLAS CO. (ECWd) - UPDATED: New hearing on all motions scheduled for May 6 at 3:00 p.m. in the Douglas County Courthouse. Freedom Of Information Act civil suit 13MR53, Kraft v Arcola Township had an appearance hearing in the Douglas County Circuit Court on March 3, 2014. I...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Mr. William D. Coombes, Arcola Township Clerk, in a recent letter to the local newspaper, entitled "Township Officials Are Available To Answer Your Questions" stated that "My office is fully transparent" and it kind of makes me want to ask him to...
TUSCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - During the hearing on this FOIA civil suit yesterday, the attorney for Arcola Township successfully argued that the service of the summons was improper and therefore the Court had no jurisdiction. The Judge agreed. The summons was served as: "William Coombe, c/o Arcola...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Arcola Township has continuously sent simple Freedom Of Information Act Request to their attorney, needlessly spending hard earned tax money and like some other public bodies, will attempt to say FOIA requests are costing them too much, which is BS. Mr. Hackler, this...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - On September 5, 2013, the Illinois Attorney General sent a closing letter to a Freedom Of Information Act request for review that I submitted alleging a FOIA denial by Arcola Twonship in that they did not respond to my request for public records....
ARCOLA, IL (ECWd) - The amount of resistance to transparency, yes I used that "ridiculous" (according to Arcola Twp Atty) word, in Arcola Township is beyond anything I have come across recently. Apparently, according to their attorney, ArcolaTownship has "expended large amount of township time and...
ARCOLA, IL (ECWd) - After review a recent FOIA request from Arcola Township, one very telling item stuck out like a sore thumb. That "sore thumb" is a written statement by Mark T. Petty, Attorney for Arcola Township, in which he said "...
