Cook Co. (ECWd) - Maine Township violated the Open Meetings Act during their November 28th, 2017, meeting by allowing the Clerk to vote and instructing three board members that they must abstain. The violation covered in this article lead to this article confirming the Attorney General...
CHRISMAN, IL. (ECWd) - More alleged electioneering using public resources. This time it is in a school building in Chrisman. In addition to the 6 School Superintendent's electioneering with public resources detailed in a previous article (here), we now find campaign signs for the Michael Smith for...
TUSCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - It has come to our attention that Michael Smith, current Superintendent of Tuscola School District, and Candidate for the Office of Superintendent of Regional Office of Education #11 has been busy using his school district email for electioneering purposes. Not only has he...
TUSCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_42662" align="alignleft" width="411"] Our rendering of the Q & A[/caption] Yes, those are his words, not ours. Dr. Bobbi Mattingly is the current, and soon retiring, Regional Schools Superintendent of ROE #11. Michael Smith is the School Superintendent in Tuscola and is campaigning...
LaSalle Co. (ECWd) - The Pleasant View Luther Home is once again in the line of fire, this time for a death of an elderly person. A year ago today NBC 5 covered an abuse case by this same facility and reports that they were fined...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - Below is the video of January 18, 2018, Board of Trustees Meeting of Jasper County Community Unit School District #1. A citizen jokingly said she would use her cane against the Superintendent and some guy used curse words during public comment relating to...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - We know, it's pretty sad when actually receiving a proper FOIA response can garner a headline. Within a half an hour of publishing this article about an incomplete response to a FOIA request for all emails of the school district, Mr. Johnson, Superintendent,...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - During the January meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Jasper County Community School District #1, Superintendent Andrew Johnson talked about the issue of him possibly needing to hire a person to answer FOIA requests. We agree, and hopefully they will...
Illinois (ECWd) - In Illinois we continue to find bad actors in our local government and elected and/or appointed boards that go out of their way to cover it up, justify it, defend it, and even reward their actions with massive payouts. Why? While many are familiar with...
ATWOOD, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Atwood Board held a Special Meeting on January 24, 2018. The resignation of Trustee Venis was read and accepted by the board as a valid resignation. The resignation of Trustee Cornwell, scheduled to be read, was not considered by the board...
