NORTH HENDERSON, IL. (ECWd) - North Henderson is a small village with less than 200 residents, yet it continuously violates the Freedom Of Information Act, FOIA, by willfully denying access to public records. In this situation, members of the public requested copies of water bills of...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park Public Library has been fighting for seven months now to maintain its status quo, where child porn is accessible over the Library's unsecured internet for pedophiles and predators who know where to find it. This horror was discovered...
IL. SUPREME COURT (ECWd) - In an opinion filed on May 22, 2014, the Illinois Supreme Court decided the case of Nelson v. Kendall County. This determination came as we expected it would: That State's Attorneys are "public bodies" and are subject to the Freedom Of...
ORLAND PARK (ECWd) - About 30 minutes prior to a regularly scheduled monthly meeting, a majority of a quorum of the Orland Park Public Library Board of Trustees held an illegal meeting in a small room just off of the main public meeting room. Trustees Plotting to...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATE: 5-23-2014 Summons was served. Arcola Township, under the leadership of William Coombe and others, is facing a THIRD Freedom Of Information Act civil suit in Douglas County. Suit number 2014-MR-17 (HERE). In this suit, I allege the township denied a FOIA request sent...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATE: 5-22-2014 Summons served. Arcola Township, under the leadership of William Coombe and others, is facing another Freedom Of Information Act civil suit in Douglas County. Suit number 2014-MR-16 (HERE). In this suit, I allege the township denied a FOIA request sent to them...
CLARK CO. (ECWd) - We have been fielding reports for the past 6 months on the Clark County Park District. One of the items that we would like to look in to further are the alleged real estate issues. So, if anyone has information on "bad faith" dealings...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - An Illinois Attorney General Opinion issued today, May 19, 2014, verifies that the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL), on the advice and with the assistance of their legal team, Dennis Walsh of Klein, Thorpe, and Jenkins, violated the law in February...
CLARK CO. (ECWd) - The first meeting I attended for the Clark County Park District Board was telling. So telling that I was shocked when an illegal act was sitting right in front of the attorney for the board, and not a single person on that...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - In yet another disgusting display of public mockery of the Freedom Of Information Act and of the Public Access Counselor’s Office, the Township of Arcola has determined they don't need to respond to Freedom Of Information Act ("FOIA") requests from the public. The...
