College of DuPage - (ECWd) - After Judge Wheaton issued a temporary restraining order (here) to the College of DuPage ordering them to hold the January 28, 2015 meeting in a larger space, the College and our attorney agreed on the area adjacent to the usual,...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - After several months of requests for a larger meeting room for citizens to attend the meeting in the same room the board members are in, and months of denials of that request by the College of DuPage attorneys, our attorney, Timothy Elliot...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Troy Eads, Chairman of the Edgar County ETSB (911) took this time to address the Edgar County Board on what Kirk Allen presented at the January Edgar County Board Meeting. He begins by apologizing for some of the information provided at the last...
January 27, 2015 - Press Release  WE SUED. Today, we sued College of DuPage for alleged violations of the Open Meetings Act conferring President Robert Breuder's $762,868.77 severance package. "The Board's actions were a slap in the face to the principles of open government and transparency that are embodied...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - This morning, the Edgar County Watchdogs, and For The Good of Illinois' Adam Andrzejewski, will file a lawsuit in DuPage County Circuit Court alleging that Open Meetings Act (OMA) violations occurred last Thursday, January 22, 2015, while the board conferred the severance...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - In yet another fine example of what is wrong with COD, Chairman Birt provides deceptive and false information to local media and gets away with it, until now! Quotes from the Daily Herald: "Birt, however, defended the vote. She said what's happening Wednesday...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We called it and clearly the message got through! (Click here for the proof!) We were called Nazis by COD Board Member Diane McGuire, yet once again, the Watchdogs educate the high dollar lawyer and the board by exposing the fact they once...
Arcola, IL. (ECWd) - Once again, the Arcola Township attorney has lied to the Court during a Hearing. This time it was to Judge Lincoln prior to his retirement. On May 6, 2014, during one of the FOIA suit hearings on Kraft v Arcola Township, case no:...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - With all of the uproar and disgust over the College of DuPage gifting Breuder one of the largest, if not the largest, severance package in the history of the state of Illinois, this article will focus on Chairman Erin Birt's actions...
Rosemont, IL. (ECWd) - Thanks to the Chicago Tribune's request for review of a FOIA denial from the Village of Rosemont for financial records dealing with a recent Garth Brooks concert held at the Colosseum, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor issued a Binding Opinion...
