Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - According to a FOIA dump that was forwarded to me this evening, the Orland Park Public Library has officially stated that their marketing/information officer, Bridget Bittman, is no longer employed with them. [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2226972-fox-foia-08-03-2015-56-response-1/annotations/234613.js" ] In recent months, Ms. Bittman had filed a...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - After reading an email chain about how a determination was made that the Orland Park Public Library could no longer redact certain items from FOIA requests that pertained to complaints filed with the library, and the library's refusal to provide the...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Yesterday, on Monday 6/15/15, writer and community activist Megan Fox sued Orland Park Library's Public Information Coordinator, Bridget Bittman, for defamation. This includes defamation per se, defamation per quod, and false light involved in Bittman allegedly telling various reporters lies about...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - This is urgent and breaking news. The judge granted the motion to dismiss in its entirety.  . All the counts asked to dismiss were granted, so her lawsuit is eviscerated. Responses are due on the remaining counts by June 15th.   . Here are the counts...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman, the Orland Park Public Library's public information coordinator, filed what we believe to be a SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit against critics of the OPPL's history of allowing child pornography to be accessed and other illegal things...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman's attorney finally finished filing all documents as ordered by the Judge. This batch was an Opposition to a Motion to Dismiss, and Opposition to Partial Motion to Dismiss. These filings can be read or downloaded below: [gview file="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5-4-2014-A.pdf" save="1"] . [gview file="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5-4-2015-B.pdf" save="1"] ...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Last week, after numerous motions to extend the time to respond, Bridget Bittman's attorney filed several Motions in response to various Motions to Dismiss. Also filed was a Motion to allow excessive pages (over the court's maximum) and an extension to file...
Orland Park, Illinois (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman, the public information officer and self-styled "crisis manager" of the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL), filed what we refer to as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) last October against several outspoken critics of the library and its...
Orland Park, Illinois (ECWd) - Orland Park Public Library employee Bridget Bittman decided a few months ago to file what I would call a frivolous lawsuit to silence critics of the library's free access to child pornography and her actions while employed at the library, see...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - In the past fifteen months, the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL) has spent over $480,000.00 fighting Freedom of Information and Open Meetings laws in a failed attempt at keeping records from the public and keeping the public from speaking / attending...
