ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - UPDATE: Copy of Court Order inserted at end of article. Today, the McHenry County Circuit Court granted our Emergency Motion To Quash a subpoena from Algonquin Township directed at Dropbox, to obtain access to our Dropbox account. We asked to quash all future...
ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - Below are the unredacted Closed Session Minutes of the January 9, 2019 meeting of the Algonquin Township Board. The Board had previously released a redacted version, but this unredacted version plays a part in a future article we will publish. The key things unredacted...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - We made a short video explaining what happens when a Township Supervisor resigns. It is a fairly straight-forward process, once you understand that the Township Code, the Open Meetings Act, and the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act must be complied with. Some key things...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - View the video from February 4, 2019 below. There was a meeting of the DuPage Township Board called for Feb 4th, Trustees Maripat Oliver and Ken Burgess decided not to attend, leaving less than a majority of a quorum as that term is...
DeKalb Township (ECWd) - In April 2015 the DeKalb Township Supervisor announced a new program he was running thru General Assistance, and it dealt with the township becoming an independent agent of Shaklee Products. We cannot find any authority in the Township Code for a township to...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Jasper County Community School District No. 1 has received a Motion for Sanctions against it alleging one of its employees committed witness tampering by threatening and intimidating a witness in a federal lawsuit. A Federal lawsuit was brought against the Jasper County...
WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has determined that the Village of Wheeling violated the Open Meetings Act during its September 5, 2017 public meeting. According to the written determination, Wheeling violated the OMA by enforcing restrictions on public comment that were not part of...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Considering it is a Tuesday and the time card reviewed today has a great big red flag for the April 4th, 2017 date, which is a Tuesday, we present to you, "Time Card Tuesday". The continued review of time cards for Anna May Miller...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Recent exposure of Anna May Miller's political work from public computers and the fuzzy math time cards has raised more questions than we can keep up with. Miller was also a County Board member while being employed by her husband at the Algonquin Township...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois Senator Melinda Bush, (D) 31st District, apparently thinks more government secrets are better. Bush filed Senate Bill 0196 on January 30, 2019. This Bill would permit a public body to hire "independent contractors" in secret, outside the prying eyes of the public. It would...
