On August 23, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed House Bill 3687 into law as Public Act 101-0521. The law amends the Illinois Criminal Code and requires that, upon a school employee’s…
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On August 27, 2019, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1213 into law as Public Act 101-0591. The law amends the School Code. Following the enactment of this law, each school…
In Chicago Tribune Company, LLC v. City of Chicago Office of the Mayor and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Tribune requested information pertaining to public business from Mayor Emanuel’s publicly issued…
In a case successfully defended by HLERK’s Jeff Goelitz, the Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the Better Government Association (“BGA”) alleging that the Illinois…
On April 18, 2016, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the City of Peoria failed to prove that a certain police report was exempt from disclosure under FOIA, thus narrowing…
A federal district court in Chicago has issued a “preliminary injunction” temporarily prohibiting a school board from enforcing a board policy that bars public commenters at school board meetings from…
The Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, recently held in Garlick v. Naperville Township, 2016 IL App (2d) 150381-U, that whether a requester has “reasonable access” to public records on…
On January 11, 2016, the Illinois Attorney General issued an informal, unbinding opinion finding that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cahokia violated the Open Meetings Act when…
In an important case on the scope of a school board’s obligation to arbitrate grievances, the Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that the Chicago Board of Education was not required…
On September 9, 2015, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled that Rich Township High School District 227 Board of Education and its individual Board members had sufficient cause to terminate the…