MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Representative Reggie Phillips will be in Marshall, Illinois for a "Springfield Update" on Monday, July 18, 2016. The public is invited. Topics for discussion include the budget and spending bill. . Please consider a donation to the Edgar County Watchdogs. [wp_eStore_donate id=1] ....
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Paris District 95 School Board, voted last night to place the question of a 1% sales tax referendum on the ballot this November. They joined what has been reported as Shiloh and Chrisman School Districts' willingness to make you pay. Knowing the taxpayers...
CAHOKIA, IL. (ECWd) - OK. So we have finally seen a tactic never before used against citizens and their right to attend meetings where they can see and hear the deliberations occurring during public meetings. Although this tactic is not by itself a violation of law,...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - What can the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor do when a public body refuses to comply with requests for information related to a Request for Review? According the an AG PAC attorney, nothing: "Unfortunately, our office lacks any authority to force a public body...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - Below are photos from our Watchdog Training event held in DuPage County on June 18, 2016. There were only a couple of empty seats :) The next one will be in Springfield, IL. in August. Additionally, one of the attendees has filed his first Freedom of...
Naperville, IL. (ECWd) - Continuing with the letter concerning compensation of DuPage County elected officials (Part 1 here), on Page 6 starts the discussion of Health Insurance participation (complete letter here): [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2940529-DuPage-SA-Opinion-Compensation/annotations/307304.html"] We agree that the Counties Code "authorizes" county elected officials to participate in insurance programs,...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - After attending a couple DuPage County Board Meetings and voicing our opinions on the full compensation received by their elected officials, and the fact is, it had never been placed in an Ordinance setting their compensation (until last month), the DuPage County...
Naperville, IL. (ECWd) - Last May I requested W2 Forms to compare what DuPage County told the IRS its elected officials were receiving in compensation, to what they were actually receiving. My request was denied and I filed a request for review with the Illinois Attorney General's...
Terre Haute, IN. (ECWd) - Michael J. Wright, the attorney for Vigo County, Indiana, in a response to a complaint file with the Indiana Public Access Counselor, claimed that a recent request for public records was nothing more than harassment. [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2938941-20160701122501743/annotations/305761.html"] There is no stipulation to claim...
Terre Haute, IN. (ECWd) - It appears to us that Vigo County and its agencies are having a problem complying with Indiana's Access to Public Records Act ("APRA") - similar to what we see across Illinois. AÂ request was filed for conflict of interest statements and payroll records,...
