Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - On September 16, 2020, the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") determined that the Village of Orland Park violated the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") by improperly responding to a request for public records seeking a list of all persons/user names...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Orland Park has taken to banning people from its Twitter page, which is a direct violation of the United States Constitution and flies in the face of recent United States Appeals Court decisions on public officials and public...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS According to credit card authorization forms produced pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Orland Park Public Library (OPPL) Director Mary Weimar recently used public library funds to buy "treats" for Village of Orland Park public workers who plowed snow in...
[caption id="attachment_42424" align="alignnone" width="255"] Village Manager Joe LaMargo, dancing at a previous year's Village of Orland Park public employee "holiday party."[/caption] ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The Village of Orland Park is something of a modern-day Peyton Place for watchdogs and observers of bad behavior by public...
WHEELING, ILLINOIS - (ECWd) - At a recent Village of Wheeling public meeting, attorney James V. Ferolo from Klein Thorpe Jenkins represented the Village. Keen observers of Open Meetings Act violations committed in recent years have pieced together a concerning pattern where Klein Thorpe Jenkins, as a...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The July 26th, 2017 violent physical assault on University of Utah Burn Center Nurse Alex Wubbels by out-of-control Salt Lake City Police Detective Jeff Payne proves the power of the Freedom of Information Act and its importance in holding public officials...
(Orland Park Public Library Director Mary Weimar's credit card spending is questioned.) ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -- (ECWd) - A strong argument can be made that the Orland Park Public Library Board (OPPLB) of Trustees has run afoul of the Illinois Local Government Travel Expense Control Act (50...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -- The Orland Park Public Library apparently manipulated its email server somehow to block a recent Freedom of Information Act request from this author, made on August 4th, 2017 for documents related to what appears to be possible violations of the Illinois...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -(ECWd) - For several weeks now, the Orland Park Public Library has been refusing to produce a receipt showing what was ordered and how many people ate (or drank) at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant named Lao Sze Chuan. The Library's story is that...
Orland Park, Illinois Recently, keen eyes noticed a curious change on the Orland Park Public Library's official Facebook page, which had previously hosted numerous videos dating back to 2014 that the OPPL had paid local videographer Maqbool Rashid to produce (at a cost to taxpayers of...
