CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Carlinville Park District has joined the ranks of three other park districts in Illinois to live up to Illinois Park District Code's standard of "shall act as such without compensation" as defined in Section 4-1 of the Park District Code. [caption id="attachment_36154" align="alignleft"...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Mayor Deanna Demuzio's leadership is a complete failure. She gets an "F" in transparency and an "F" in leadership. The Carlinville FOIA Officer, Carla Brockmeier, gets an "F" in compliance with the law. Demuzio, as Mayor of the city, directs the city attorneys and has apparently...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Update 4-28-2017: Carlinville filed an answer to the Complaint with the Macoupin Circuit Clerk's Office today, April 28, 2017. According to the Macoupin County Circuit Clerk's information in the Judici database, the City of Carlinville has failed to answer the Summons served on...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - In a direct reflection of Mayor Deanna Demuzio's incompetence in seeking out legal advice, her chosen attorneys are failing to assist her in complying with the law - unless maybe she is directing them to ignore the law? In yet another apparent willful disregard of the Freedom of...
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...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Once again, the City of Carlinville has denied a Freedom of Information Act request for public records. Their attorney is sure to enjoy the extra income generated by their refusal to obey the law - and make Carlinville taxpayers pay for it. In an...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has sent the City of Carlinville letters of inquiry in response to several requests for review of alleged Freedom of Information Act violations that I forwarded to the AG's Public Access Counselor ("PAC"). These letters require the public body to respond...
Rosemont, Illinois and Rolling Meadows, Illinois (ECWd) - This seems to be the standard for a public body - pay an attorney to answer simple Freedom of Information Act requests, and then complain later about how much the FOIA requests are costing the public. The real issue...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During last night's Carlinville City Council meeting, the Council, by unanimous vote, directed the Attorney to turn over public records in response to FOIA requests submitted by John Kraft and waive any fees associated with copies of the documents he requested. One council member expressed...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - This article is a response to the hatchet job published by The 'Burnian, the newspaper of Blackburn College. Nowhere in the article does it disclose that Mayor Deanna Demuzio is also a Board Member of Blackburn College, and it never mentions Kraft had asked for...
