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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is an Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to copy and inspect public records in the state. The law applies to executive and legislative bodies of state government, units of local government, and other entities defined as "public bodies". All records related to governmental business are ...
Freedom of Information Act; 83rd Illinois General Assembly; Citation: 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq. Public Act 83-1013: Passed: June 28, 1983: Signed by: Governor James R. Thompson (after amendatory veto agreed to by the General Assembly) Signed: December 27, 1983: Effective: July 1, 1984: Legislative history; Bill title: House Bill 234: Introduced by
Illinois FOIA request form. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Freedom of information in the United States. File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as ...
Madigan, 2013 IL App (4th) 120662, 992 N.E.2d 629 (2013), is a case decided by the Illinois Appellate Court in 2013 concerning the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The court ruled that messages sent and received by elected officials during a city council meeting and pertaining to public business are public records subject to ...
The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a law that allows the public to request access to records from federal agencies to promote transparency in government operations. For example, a journalist ...
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