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 […]
The Chicago Headline Club applauds the action by the Illinois Supreme Court which throws out the state’s eavesdropping law, which prohibited the recording of any conversation – public or private – without consent. While the ruling removes all restrictions connected with in-person conversations, Headline Club President Fernando Diaz said […]
According to the report in The Daily Herald: The law allowing residents and business to request public records may be dubbed the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, but as municipalities are seeing more and more requests come in each year, officials say the cost to comply with the law is anything […]
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that when it comes to public records laws, state’s attorneys are just like other government officials. The Associated Press reports that the unanimous ruling forces county prosecutors to release public records under the Freedom of Information Act. The law is intended to improve government transparency. […]
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