In a recent binding opinion, the Public Access Counselor found that a city council violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA) when it failed to provide the Zoom link to a…
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In a challenge to a school board’s decision to hold a remote meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (PAC) issued a binding opinion…
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…
In Tanner v. Ziegenhorn, a federal court in Arkansas found that the Arkansas State Police violated a citizen’s First Amendment rights by blocking him from commenting on its Facebook page…
Public Act 102-0697, which is effective immediately, impacts many school district and charter school employees who either had to previously miss work for certain COVID-related reasons or who may miss…
Update March 2022: ISBE Postpones Collection of Student Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Data On March 4, 2022, ISBE sent a memo to all ISBE Student Information System (SIS) users…
On December 3, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed Faith’s Law, P.A. 102-0676 (HB 1976), into law. Faith’s Law expands the criminal definition of grooming beyond electronic communications to include written communications…
In a 6-3 decision published January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed, or paused, the COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”). Specifically,…
After being unavailable for the majority of calendar year 2021 due to an April 2021 hacking incident, the Illinois Attorney General’s website containing the required electronic Freedom of Information Act…
In Chicago Public Media v. Cook County Office of the President, an Illinois appellate court ruled in favor of a media company that requested records under FOIA relating to a…