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. […]
The Citizen Advocacy Center is urging people, especially journalists and public watch dogs, to contact their state senators to urge them to vote against HV 3796. According to the CAC’s web site, HB 3796, is “problematic” and was only introduced last Friday afternoon. It passed the House on Memorial Day, and […]
The Illinois Senate today passed HB3796 that calls for changes in the state’s FOIA guidelines. According to the Citizen Advocacy Center: The bill adds provisions to the Freedom of Information Act to create a category of requests called “Voluminous Requests.” This is in addition to the other provisions in the […]
The Chicago Headline Club today urged Gov. Pat Quinn to veto HB 3976, which sets new limits on the Freedom of Information Act. The Headline Club’s statement says: The Chicago Headline Club is dismayed by the quick action taken by the Illinois legislature on HB 3796, which puts new limitations […]
Statistics, an old editor once said, can be squirrely things. His favorite example was this – if you have 10 women in a room and one woman is pregnant and the other nine are virgins, statistically, all 10 are 10 percent pregnant and 90 percent virgins. To this day, I […]
The following article, which was published in July 3 The Daily Herald, chronicles an action taken by Gov. Pat Quinn based on information received through the Freedom of Information Act by For the Good of Illinois. Email prompts Quinn to withhold $20 million in funding for COD By Robert Sanchez The College of […]
The Citizens Advocacy Center today is calling for support to block an attempt by the state legislature to override Gov. Quinn’s veto of HB 3796. “As we suspected, it looks likely that the Illinois General Assembly will attempt to override the Governor’s veto on HB 3796 and may be brought up for […]
In a ruling with important implications for newspapers and the public throughout Illinois, on November 18 DuPage Circuit Court Judge Dorothy French Mallen dismissed a defamation lawsuit [DuPage case number 14 L 413] filed by Winfield Village Trustee Tony Reyes against his community’s struggling sole newspaper, The Winfield Express. The […]
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times State appeals court: Reporter will not have to disclose source Sam Charles @samjcharles | email A reporter previously held in contempt of court while covering a grisly Joliet double-homicide will not have to disclose his source, a state appeals court ruled Monday. The court reversed […]
A bill filed Feb. 27 by Illinois House Representaives Christian Mitchell (D-26) and Barbara Flynn Currie (D-25) would require police and security departments operated by private colleges and universities to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. HB3932 provides an amendment to the Private College Campus Police Act http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=011010200K1 requiring those […]
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