In Shawnee Community Unit School District No. 84 v. PTAB, the Illinois appellate court allowed a power plant owner to challenge the plant’s assessed value even though its delinquent property…
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On November 10, 2022, the Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services issued a letter to state directors of special education addressing concerns related to the needs…
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…
Illinois voters have approved the “Workers’ Rights Amendment,” which will enshrine the right of employees to unionize and bargain collectively in the Illinois Constitution. The amendment provides that Illinois workers…
In Public Access Opinion 22-006, the Illinois Public Access Counselor (PAC) found that a school board violated the Open Meetings Act by implementing a change to the district’s masking requirements…
The Illinois Public Access Counselor (PAC) issued a binding opinion finding that a school board’s closed session discussions violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA) when it improperly had an expansive…
In a binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor found that the Farm Committee of the Shelby County Board violated Section 2.02(c) of the Open Meetings Act because the committee took…
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,…
In a recent binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor determined that a city properly denied a FOIA request for personal information of certain employees covered by a particular collective bargaining…
Yesterday, Governor Pritzker issued a press release announcing that he is rescinding the portion of Executive Order 2021-22 that required school personnel to either vaccinate or participate in weekly COVID-19…