For the last few weeks, there’s been heated debate about Mayor Rahm and his handling of the Laquan McDonald video. The question is: Did the mayor cover up evidence of a murder when he sat on the video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald in 2014—only releasing the video after a Cook County […]
Tag: Freedom of Information Act
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A rosy CPS survey on cops in schools falls short
Despite bad data and board discord, CPS renews contract with CPD.
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Chicago won’t pay ‘hush money’ to prevent police misconduct records release—for now
A City Council vote on Charles Green’s lawsuit settlement was postponed.
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Rauner and Pritzker tout government transparency while blocking access to records
Will Illinois’s candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?
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Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
“If Laquan McDonald hadn’t been killed and they’d elected to charge him with a crime, we would still be waiting to see that video.”
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After veterans’ home cover-up, is Rauner the state’s most secretive schmuck?
As the WBEZ exposé into the Legionnaire’s outbreak in Quincy reveals, Rauner will do just about anything to keep the public from knowing what he’s up to.
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Rahm’s Chicago Stories podcast takes you inside the mind of the mayor
We listened to all 18 hours of it so you don’t have to.
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People with clout are still contacting Rahm on his private e-mail account, and other Chicago news
Also, a New Zealand-based coffee chain wants to open more than 30 locations in Chicago over the next few years.
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Why’d CPS fire Troy LaRaviere? An activist sues to find out.
Nick Burt sues Chicago Public Schools after radio silence from the district on a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Less than one-half of 1 percent of arrestees in Chicago saw a lawyer while in police custody, and other news
Also, Dick Durbin says he isn’t interested in running for governor.
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Emanuel blows off another FOIA request for video of a fatal police shooting
The mayor inaugurates a new age of transparency in police investigations by suppressing video of the fatal police shooting of Cedrick Chatman.
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Dumke beats mayor’s lawyers in cop spying case
After months of requests and an order from the state, Mayor Emanuel’s police department finally coughs up a few details about its undercover police spy investigations of ordinary citizens.
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Like Governor Rauner, Speaker Madigan says he has the right to do public business in secret
Mike Madigan says the Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to him.
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The one-man battle to find out where Ventra came from
After suing the CTA, Jason Prechtel got the inside scoop on how Chicago ended up with Ventra.
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Why I’m suing the Chicago Police Department
Video of a Chicago police officer shooting a 17-year-old should be public, a Chicago journalist argues in a civil complaint.