CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) – Below is a copy of the file-stamped Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the City of Carlinville by Robert Bogue. We wrote about this lawsuit...
...the Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor. As of the date of filing, Brockmeier and Carlinville never answered either FOIA request. We understand there is another lawsuit headed Carlinville’s way for...
...Defendants complaint was filed prior to expiration of license failure of city to adhere to their own Ordinances regarding zoning and violations the city filed a SLAPP – Strategic Lawsuit...
...produce 7 pieces of paper that they already had. How is that overwhelming? I filed several lawsuits to force the city to provide the records, I would have preferred to...
Coles Co. (ECWd) – Coles County, through their hired attorneys out of Champaign, filed a four-page Motion to Dismiss in the Federal Court. The county is of the position that...
...is the very same public body that had to settle a transparency lawsuit filed against it because the very same people involved in keeping this $96.50 receipt hidden from the...
...were then sued in chancery court over that FOIA violation, ultimately being forced to settle the lawsuit for $12,000 and being compelled to end their unlawful practice of blocking certain...
...Quinn signed, an Amendment to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that exempted the exact records sought in the lawsuit. According to the brief, the circuit court refused to retroactively...
...Bridget Bittman during her employment at the Library (which ended ignominiously in July 2015, shortly after a defamation lawsuit was filed against Bittman for allegedly making knowingly false statements to...
Coles Co. (ECWd) – The taxpayers suing Coles County in Federal Court have filed an amended complaint that further details the alleged Fourteenth Amendment violations of the US Consitution to...