Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Last year when we were looking to verify the IDOT gun violence story out of Franklin County, WAND was also attempting to verify it. An email produced as a result of a FOIA lawsuit we filed against IDOT indicates Governor Pritzker's Press Secretary,...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - According to an email dated February 10, 2023, from the court-appointed special prosecutor Tracy Weaver, numerous public records appear to be missing from the State's Attorney's office computers. While emails placed in a deleted folder are not technically the destruction of a...
Benton, Ill (ECWd) - According to court records, the Illinois Department of Transportation and Franklin County State's Attorney have convinced the Court to seal all records of the Misdemeanor charges against former IDOT employee and current Benton City Commissioner Donald Storey through the duration of the...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - Steven A. Cobb, a convicted pedophile now serving 5 years in the Department of Corrections related to his arrest and prosecution in Coles County also faces a Class X felony charge for Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child in Shelby...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first covered the arrest of Steven Decker in this article after he allegedly drove through a cemetery in Moweaqua in January of 2023. Decker was originally charged with Class 3 and 4 felonies and Class A misdemeanors; however, no charge was...
Clermont, FL. (ECWd) - We have finally secured the final remaining domain name pursuant to a settlement agreement and apology letter tendered by Bonnie Kurowski. It is: fightforil.com and was part of the federal lawsuit settlement. This one took us a few weeks to obtain as...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Shelby County State's Attorney announced criminal charges against Kathleen Agney, wife of Troy Agney, the former Shelby County EMA Director. Below is the quote released and provided to Shelbyville Eagle. "Today, Â May 2, 2023, I caused to be filed with the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - Copies of the verified petitions for Orders or Protection / No Stalking Orders indicate allegations of threats of shooting all of the newly elected water district trustees and further instances of stalking new and former trustee(s). According to the court filings in the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - During a Special Meeting of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District held on April 5, 2023, just weeks prior to a newly elected board taking over the District from the appointed (and lame-duck) board, it decided to place "Veolia Contract" on the...
Silvis, Ill. (ECWd) - In a previous article on our complaint to the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") against the City of Silvis, Illinois, alleging Open Meetings Act ("OMA") violations during a February 7, 2023, closed meeting in which the city's labor attorney confiscated and...
