Priority Briefings
Illinois Appeals Court Limits School District’s Obligation to Provide Transportation to Parochial School Students
On June 18, 2012, the Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court ruled that the Illinois School Code does not require a public school district to provide transportation to parochial and charter school students on days that public schools are not in session. In C.E. and C.L. v. Board of Education of East St. Louis School Dist.…
Read MoreE-Mails and Text Messages on Personal Communication Devices Subject to FOIA
On June 12, 2012, a Circuit Court in Sangamon County, Illinois ordered the City of Champaign and its City Council members to produce emails and text messages sent on their personal cell phones during a City Council meeting. The lawsuit was brought by a newspaper which had previously submitted a request for the records pursuant…
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