We were provided with the receipts produced to Frank Ghorbani under the Freedom of Information Act for all expenses for Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard’s “Friends of Tiffany Henyard” ...

The Shelby County Dive Commander, Austin Prichard, has refused to provide a roster of the members of the dive team after it ...

This is a story of state actors failing the public, with tragic results. One individual with a commercial driver’s license (“CDL”) was involved in three “accidents” or incidents within a four-year ...

According to a Coles County Sheriff’s Department Press Release, Andrew Towell and Katelynn Bowman, both from Paris, Illinois, ...

We conducted a routine audit of campaign donations using the State Board of Elections database and certain keywords. One of ...

Shelby County State’s Attorney Ruth Woolery has requested a legal opinion from the Attorney General’s Opinions Bureau on the questions of conflict of interest. The ...

The Orland Fire Protection District entered into a contract with a “consultant” to provide diversity consulting to the ...

The Shelby County Electoral Board held its petition objection hearing this afternoon. After placing all the parties under oath, they were given a chance to submit any evidence or testimony they ...

Facebook user Joy Schreiber noticed that the Illinois Bingo License and Tax Act permits local governments to conduct BINGO games “subject to” the restriction of a $10 maximum prize value for each game ...

Seminole County, FL (ECWd) - Our sister organization, the American Watchdogs Inc., provided their local government accountability training earlier in the year to just under 100 local citizens in ...

From Illinois Answers Project: A few years ago, Coles County Jail promised to stop using electrified “stun cuffs” to shock people restrained in chairs. How much has changed? ECWd note: Current Coles ...

Washington DC (ECWd)- The Department of Justice Inspector General's FISA report has been released and can be downloaded at this link. While there is a lot to absorb in over 475 pages of information, a ...