GILMAN, IL. (ECWd) - This article will cover three issues; Costs of complying with Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests, who asked us to send FOIA requests, and School Board Member Kyle Kraft's offensive comments. CRAZY:Â The Watchdogs cost the school district $2977 in lost personnel hours...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - Yes, I said deception and both the Superintendent Dr. Dvorak and the Board of Education are involved. It is clear after a few Freedom of Information Act requests and attendance at one meeting, the public is being deceived in what appears to possibly...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We recently reported on the College of DuPage Candidate Maureen Dunne and her statement of economic interest in this article. According to Candidate Maureen Dunne’s LinkedIn page, she is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois. This same disclosure was found in...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - Apparently, former DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer has a problem with people posting negative comments about him in the closed Facebook group "Bolingbrook Politics" and contacted his attorney to threaten at least one of its administrators. On March 22, 2019, attorney John R....
McHenry Co. (ECWd) – If you are new to our Time Card Tuesday series we urge you to catch up by first reading part 1, 2, 3, 4.,5, 6 and 7. At this point in our coverage, it is abundantly clear, whoever was managing payroll has some explaining to do. Today’s...
ALORTON, IL. (ECWd) - According to local residents, on March 17, 2019, Alorton Village Mayor Jo Ann Reed was spotted using the Village of Alorton's Police vehicle to distribute sample ballots with her preferred candidate's names checked off. Our source indicated that Reed handed out the ballot...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Our recent exposure of Algonquin Township Road District's failure to bid out salt purchases in accordance with established laws continues to raise concerns. In particular, as outlined in the previous article, the bidding is to be done through a unit of government,...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - On March 21, 2019, the Edgar County Watchdogs filed an FOIA lawsuit in Logan County Circuit Court alleging that the Atlanta Public Library District violated the Freedom of Information Act by denying public records request for an unredacted copy of a Federal...
MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) - Happening now: Shores Jewelry fire in downtown Mattoon, Illinois. Emergency crews are on the scene. The fire started just prior to 6 p.m. today. No further information available at this time. Photos and video submitted by a reader are below: [gallery type="rectangular" ids="51097,51098,51099,51100,51101,51102,51103"] . [video width="480" height="848" mp4="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ShoresJewelry-Fire.mp4"][/video] . ...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Miller's Motion to Dismiss was denied except that count 9 is dismissed as moot. We understand count 9 was related to the missing records. We covered the Thomas Gooch III filing in this article. We suspect each and every point we have...
