A reminder that public bodies cannot simply withhold entire documents just because some of the contents are exempt. An Illinois appellate court found that the City of Chicago could not completely withhold a police “action plan” regarding a planned response to the verdict in the highly publicized trial of Jason Van Dyke, where it contained both exempt and non-exempt content.
In a non-binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor found that a city council violated the Open Meetings Act when it muted public commenters at a meeting held via video conference, because its rule against abusive language was content-based and therefore violated the OMA and the First Amendment rights of the non-disruptive speakers.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced a comprehensive review of Title IX regulations and guidance in response to President Biden’s prior Executive Order.
The City of Hillsboro was found to have violated the OMA when it entered closed session to discuss an issue involving a sewer main that the City Council believed could result in litigation. However, because litigation was neither pending, probable, nor imminent, the discussion of the issue in closed session was improper.
An Illinois appellate court ruled that a FOIA request estimated to require CPS to sift through 28,000 pages of documents was not automatically unduly burdensome.
Partners Cindi DeCola and Tony Loizzi will discuss the fundamentals of collective bargaining at an IASA Workshop on May 20, 2021.
A federal appellate court held that an employer did not have to accommodate its nurse employee after she was severely injured in an accident, although it had modified her job duties for two years, because she was no longer able to perform the essential functions of the job.
A recent PAC opinion reinforces the requirements under FOIA Section 3(g) that public bodies should provide specific details about why a FOIA request is unduly burdensome and must actually attempt to confer with a requester in good faith to narrow the FOIA request to more manageable proportions.
In 1400 Wolf Road, LLC v. Pappas, an Illinois appellate court rejected arguments by taxpayers claiming that a school district’s issuance of working cash fund bonds was illegal because the…
On January 29, 2021, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (“OSHA”) branch of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued new guidance intended to help employers identify COVID-19 exposure risks…