Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - This is an examination of a township's powers, or lack thereof, to enact a Resolution banning certain people from attending meetings and banning people from township property. First and foremost, Dillon's Rule applies to Townships as it does to all other non home...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - This article will place Pecatonica Township's Public Comment Policy on a timeline to better understand steps taken to limit free speech at public meetings, and to lay out the factual case that banishment from meetings is not, and never has been, a...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_55362" align="alignleft" width="217"] The three that hate free speech...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - During the November 19, 2019, Pecatonica Township Board of Trustees meeting, the Township Supervisor, Joseph Musso, voted to pay himself a $1000.00 check for "10 years of backpay" he wrongly says he is owed. Watch the video where this was discussed below. Musso complains...
PECATONICA TWP (ECWd) - This is one of four documented violations (so far) of the Open Meetings Act by Pecatonica Township within the past 2 years. Maybe they need additional remedial training on open meetings? This AG determination stems from a township meeting held on June 20, 2017,...
Winnebago Co. (ECWd) - In an Illinois Attorney General Opinion dated August 3, 2017, Pecatonica Township was found to have violated the Open meetings Act by improperly limiting public comment to two minutes per speaker (when there was only one speaker). The problem was that they did...
Winnebago Co. (ECWd) - "For the reasons explained below, the Public Access Bureau concludes that the Pecatonica Township Board violated the requirements of the OMA in connection with its January 15, 2019, meeting by enforcing an unreasonable public comment rule to prohibit a member of the...
Winnebago Co. (ECWd) - "For the reasons explained below, the Public Access Bureau concludes that the Pecatonica Township Board violated the requirements of the OMA in connection with its December 19, 2017, meeting by prohibiting a member of the public from addressing the Board during the...
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) - During the October 15, 2019 Pecatonica Township Board of Trustees Meeting, the township attorney, John Nelson, while he was talking about us, stated that the [Edgar County Watchdogs] "have a program where they try to find things that they can sue townships...
Winnebago Co. (ECWd) - Pecatonica Township officials must think they live in N. Korea or China, or somewhere else that rules with an iron fist without the rule of law. At the Pecatonica Township meeting held Oct 15, 2019, the Board Chairman decided it was a good...
