Champaign Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois State Police and the City of Urbana, after being sued under the Freedom of Information Act for improper redactions, have provided unredacted records pertaining to the allegation of criminal shoplifting by State Representative Carol Ammons. Initially, both agencies redacted Ammons's...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - According to an article on CUPerspective.org, with ample supporting documentation, the now-appointed Alderman Erick Sacks was ticketed for the destruction of city property when he allegedly hired a contractor to remove asphalt on a newly paved alley behind his house. Read the article...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - We recently published the Attorney General's opinion that Urbana recently violated the Open Meetings Act twice by their content-based prohibiting of certain public comment during meetings. We redacted the AG's opinion by blocking out the victim's home addresses and personal email addresses. The...
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has issued an opinion stating that the Urbana City Council, and Mayor Marlin, violated the Open Meetings Act twice when she refused to permit a member of the public to criticize public officials/employees by name...
Urbana, IL. (ECWd) - Phyllis Clark, the current Urbana City Clerk and candidate for Clerk in the upcoming April 2021 election, apparently used her city office during a campaign ad, which also included a city employee, who appears to be on city time. She can be seen...
Urbana, IL. (ECWd) - Caught on a hot mic, Urbana City Councilwoman Shirese Hursey was confused about how to exit a Zoom meeting, and spewed out several "F-Bombs" before being reminded the public was listening. Video is below, as recorded by Checkcu.com. This comes after several months of...
Urbana, IL. (ECWd) - Reprinted with permission from checkcu.org please visit their website for more information on the Champaign-Urbana area. The November 16th Urbana City Council meeting brought greater insight into the heavy-handed and poorly defined public speaking rules imposed last month. Apparently, the rules created by Mayor Diane...
Urbana, IL. (ECWd) - After reviewing a City of Urbana meeting video, I learned that the city is using all available research methods to try and identify the names of who they receive Freedom Of Information Act ["FOIA"] requests from. I submitted an FOIA request for all...
Urbana, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATE #2: the Urbana School District has confirmed that Shamar Betts does not and did not work for them and is/was not a school district employee. The "afterschool program" at the Urbana Middle School was in cooperation with the Urbana Park District....
URBANA, IL. (ECWd) - Samuel J. Byndom, Assistant Superintendent of Schools at Urbana School District 116, was charged earlier this month with eavesdropping. In previous reports, it was alleged that he purchased a voice activated ink pen and placed it in the closed session meeting room of...
