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A Look at Part of Johnsburg’s Freedom of Information Fight with Maggie Haney

The Village of Johnsburg posted a press release attacking Mary Haney and her husband for the cost of replying to Freedom of Information requests. It showed up a day after Haney, running for Village...

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Citizens/Media Can Get Public Officials’ Arrest Records

The bunny slope is right in front of where one may eat at Galena’s Chestnut Mountain. Our family went to Galena mid-week and, besides seeing skiers on Spring Break for the first time at Chestnut Ridge,...

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Suit Seeking to Force Keith Nygren to Follow Attorney General’s FOIA...

Pete Gonigam is seen here with Yvonne Barnes. First Electric Newspaper Editor Pete Gonigam filed a Freedom of Information request with the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department seeking documents about...

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Reply to Freedom of Information Request for Authorization to Use Sheriff’s...

Ten days ago, I filed a Freedom of Information request with the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department asking the following question: “Under the FOIA I request all documents that authorize Andy Zinke to...

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McHenry County College Refuses to Tell How Many Social Security Numbers Were...

A while ago, I filed a Freedom of Information request with McHenry County College with regard to the security breach by software vendor Ellucian. Among other things, I asked for documents that would...

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Closing In on the Number Involved in McHenry County College Security Security...

As you might imagine, when I learned that McHenry County College software vendor Ellucian had sent Social Security numbers and other personal information to three junior colleges which MCC refused to...

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Judge Meyer Rules Nygren & Leist Get Attorney for Zinke DEA Investigation...

The masthead of the First Electric Newspaper Judge Thomas Meyer ruled Friday morning that McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren and his legal affairs officer Don Leist will have an appointed attorney to...

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Bianchi to Represent Nygren in Zinke Exoneration Freedom of Information Case

Lou Bianchi Keith Nygren That was my takeaway from the hearing in Judge Thomas Meyer’s courtroom today. To put it in terms contained in the law book and an Illinois Supreme Court ruling, the lawyer for...

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Sheriff Has No Policy about Who Can Fill Up at County Expense

There have been reports that vehicle appearing not to be owned by McHenry County have been filling their tanks at the Sheriff’s Department filling station. I decided to ask if there were any policy...

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No Rule Against Fixing Private Vehicles in McHenry County Sheriff’s Garage

Gus Philpott published this picture of a new sign in front of the Sheriff’s Department’s garage on his Woodstock Advocate. Over the years there have been reports of private cars having their oil...

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Nunda Township Road Commissioner Hiding Audit of Senior Bus Services

McHenry County Auditor Pam Palmer conducted an audit of the grant to the Nunda Township Road Commissioner for Senior Bus Service. Since County government was responsible for awarding the money, it...

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Chicago Police Department Reticent to Provide Misbehaving Officer’s Photo

Jennifer Martin, who lost her job as a Chicago Police Officer because she ran license plates for a friend. When the neighbor across the way from the castle in Fox River Grove got irritated by people...

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Althoff Comments on FOIA Modification Bill She Sponsored

From State Senator Pam Althoff: In response to recent e-mails and phone calls I have received regarding my yes vote on House Bill 3796, I would like to explain why this legislation, will in fact,...

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Zinke Exoneration Summary Reported by First Electric Newspaper

Andy Zinke The First Electric Newspaper’s Editor, Pete Gonigam, got half a loaf in response to this Freedom of Information request and suit yesterday. Gonigam sought a report prepared by Donald Leist...

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First Electric Newspaper Awarded $5,000 for Sheriff Keith Nygren’s FOIA...

As I pointed out earlier, First Electric Newspaper’s Pete Gonigam’s article of Judge Thomas Meyer’s ruling in his Freedom of Information Suit against Keith Nygren’s Sheriff’s Office is a must read....

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Governtment-Financed Non-Profits Should Be Subject to FOIA

Where was the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1970’s when I introduced a bill to require that all not-for-profit corporations which obtained a majority of its funding from government be subject to the Freedom...

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Payment for Zinke FOI Case Near

Andy Zinke When former Sheriff Keith Nygren refused to release his report exonerating his Undersheriff Andy Zinke in his dealings with an executive of Rita Corporation, First Electric Newspaper...

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Zielinski on FOIA

A press release from Grafton Township Assessor Al Zielinski: Grafton Township Assessor Laments a Return to Acrimony. Al Zielinski HUNTLEY, IL (August 21, 2015) – “Maybe there’s something in the water...

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Transparency – Following the Money

The Chicago Sun-Times ran an article yesterday that took three years to write. It was about how UNO, the charter school outfit backed by House Speaker Mike Madigan, spent money provided by governments....

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“Sunshine Activist” Cal Skinner

Back in 2007, less than two years after McHenry County Blog was founded, State Sunshine and Open Records interviewed me on my experiences with the Freedom of Information Act. With Jack Franks’ Freedom...

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