DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We now have Bruce Schmiedl's own emails that appear to prove he outright lied to the Board of Trustees. Schmiedl claim to the board: “I was contacted by a gentleman with the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations, asked whether or not I...
DuPage Co. (ECWd)- In what appears to be an unprecedented move in the State of Illinois, the Chief Deputy Director of Office of the Secretary of State, Illinois State Archives Records Management Section, has now taken pro-active steps against the College of DuPage. All record disposal...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We first raised the flag of the College of DuPage destroying records in violation of the Local Records Act in this article. We have confirmed that the college has destroyed all e-mails older than 4-30-2014 as well as other documents. Mission Accomplished!...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - DuPage County Chairman Dan Cronin has promoted the ACT Initiative, which stands for Accountability, Consolidation, Transparency. "At the County, we have embarked upon a comprehensive local government reform initiative to revitalize our County appointed agencies that deliver vital public services. With your...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Part IV of this series on the utter failure of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations (IDFPR) to investigate and validate information being provided to them will be to expose College of DuPage (COD) Senior Administrator Bruce Schmiedl’s new problems...
DuPage Co (ECWd) - We exposed what had the appearance of an orchestrated data purge taking place at the College of DuPage and the potential legal problems related to records destruction that was taking place in two past articles found here and here. In an effort...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Many months ago I said my goodbyes to people at COD that I had come to know and admire. They were part of a bond created among many people that set ideology aside and worked towards the betterment of the institution...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Attention to detail. Each and every word and sentence in a document tells you something. The conspicuous absence of documents in the IDFPR investigation of Herricane Graphics may be telling us something.  The same conspicuous absence discovered in one of the...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations (IDFPR) is charged with investigating and prosecuting violations of law pertaining to certain licensed occupations in the State of Illinois. Most would assume that when that agency turns over a case to their prosecution...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - I would first like to give thanks to the Reform Trustees at the College of Dupage. Your leadership is critical to fixing what is so terribly broken at COD, and although this article is yet another hit on the malfeasance at...
