The Chicago Headline Club today condemned the contempt of court charges filed against AOL Patch reporter Joe Hosey by Will County Circuit Court Judge Gerald Kinney. Kinney found Hosey in contempt for not revealing sources who provided him information related to the January stranglings of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins. […]
The following appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and on suntimes.com on Sept. 14. Curtis Lawrence is an associate professor of Journalism at Columbia College Chicago. Suzanne McBride is associate chair of the Journalism Department. A bad lesson in democracy from Board of Education BY CURTIS LAWRENCE AND SUZANNE MCBRIDE As […]
One of the challenges associated with presenting at a conference – journalism or otherwise – is trying to figure out how many people will attend your session. There have been times when I’ve had standing room only, and other times when I could have invited the attendees to Starbucks […]
SPJ’s annual FOI issue of Quill is now available. The September/October issue looks at a variety of FOI issues. The digital copy is available at http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/publication/?i=176846. For information about membership in SPJ, go to https://www.spj.org/index.asp Information about the Chicago Headline Club is at headlineclub.org.
Thanks to the efforts of the Better Government Association, access to public information from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds is a bit easier. The following news release, distributed by the BGA, details the action. CHICAGO—The Cook County Recorder of Deeds, run by elected official Karen Yarbrough, has agreed to […]
Mayor Emanuel released Feb. 8 the first Open Data Annual Report, which provides an update on the City’s open data policies, outlines several new initiatives and previews dataset releases for 2014. Since 2011, the number of datasets and user downloads of City data has more than doubled. This year, the […]
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press now has available iFOIA, a free online system for creating, sending, and tracking federal and state freedom of information requests. The iFOIA resource, which is online at www.ifoia.org, is an extension of the Reporters Committee’s popular FOIA Letter Generator, which has been […]
Registration is now open for The Headline Club’s FOIA FEST on Friday, March 14. In light of Sunshine Week, the Chicago Headline Club is rolling out its annual FOIA Fest: a daylong conference starting at 8:30 a.m. at Loyola University’s School of Communications, 51 E. Pearson Street. Admission is free. […]
According to reports in the Chicago Sun-Times, “…..The Chicago Police Department can no longer keep misconduct records secret, a state appeals court has ruled.”‘ According to the report, ” The Illinois Freedom of Information Act doesn’t exempt “CR files,” which consist of misconduct complaints against officers and documents created […]
Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (PAC) is an administrative agency that processes Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Open Meetings Act (OMA) complaints filed by members of the public and the press. The agency was given binding enforcement powers effective in 2010 and has received copious requests for assistance in […]
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