In Public Access Opinion 23-002, the Public Access Coordinator (“PAC”) found that a public school did not violate FOIA by partially denying a request for faculty survey results. In September…
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In Edgar County Watchdogs v. Joliet Township, a government oversight organization submitted a FOIA request to a township for a copy of a specific hard drive. The township responded that…
In Public Access Opinion 22-013, the Public Access Counselor (PAC) found that the City of Chicago violated FOIA when it denied a request for a letter that was sent to…
On January 31, 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced in a press release that the state’s public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been continuously renewed for thirty-day…
Public Act 102-112 extended the deadline to pay Cook County first installment property taxes for tax year 2022 from March 1, 2023, to April 1, 2023. By law, Cook County…
The Department of Education (DOE) recently updated its guidance on ESSER and GEER funding to include more information on a variety of topics, including disposition rules for equipment and supplies,…
P.A. 102-0895 (effective May 23, 2022) enacted a new Section 17-1.3 of the School Code, which provides that each school district now must publicly disclose the cash reserve balance of…
The Public Access Counselor recently issued a binding opinion finding that a city’s department of human resources violated FOIA when it denied a reporter’s request for complaints of racism, discrimination,…
Second installment Cook County property tax bills apparently may be significantly delayed this year—per a Cook County Board of Review commissioner, possibly even six months late. The delay stems from…
The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (PAC) issued a binding opinion that a school board violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA) by failing to offer members of the public…