Northern Illinois University - (ECWd) - Is it better for a state agency to misrepresent its practices to the Office of the Auditor General or to the Public Access Bureau of the Attorney General’s office? That is the dilemma in which Northern Illinois University (NIU) finds...
Illinois - (ECWd) We have confirmed that Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino's campaign treasurer has, in fact, testified before a Criminal Grand Jury. Q. Okay. Have you ever received any other subpoenas for documents or depositions in which the Committee for Frank J. Mautino was...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - The State Board of Elections held a hearing to iron out Frank Mautino's campaign committee's apparent refusal/inability to amend their past filings as previously directed by the Board. We first broke this story in January of 2016 in this article. This hearing was...
Edgar County, IL. (ECWd) - FOIA Officer stipend for Edgar County Emergency Telephone System Board: $1500 Number of FOIA complaints resolved in her favor: Practically NONE ETSB, please demand your money back, it isn't working. The ETSB Coordinator failed to justify withholding public records again...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) – This article is to clarify when we believe an elected park district commissioner takes office – or more importantly, ceases to be a commissioner. From the Illinois Park District Code: Commissioners shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - Iroquois County State's Attorney Jim Devine appears to have once again stepped off into areas he apparently knows little about and gave legal advice that puts his client, the County Board, into a position of violating the law. Before we dive into...
ECWd - This year has been one of those unique election cycles where the election results created real questions on what exactly constitutes a conflict of interest when serving as an elected Community College Trustee. First, is a student (full or part-time irrelevant) that ran for, and...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - The request was simple, the response is compelling. A copy of the state statute utilized for the purpose of charging other units of governments for 911 dispatch service. The fact of the matter is no such statute spells out that either a County,...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Pay attention Carlinville: Last Friday, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor determined that the McHenry County Blog was "news media" as that term is defined in the Freedom of Information Act. McHenry County decided that FOIA requester Cal Skinner, McHenry County Blog, was a recurrent...
Orland Park, Illinois (ECWd) - On Monday, April 17th, 2017, the Orland Park Public Library Board is poised to approve spending in the amount of $6,700 to send staffers and Board President Nancy Wendt Healy on another round of needless conference traveling. It begs the questions:...
