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The Open Meetings Act (OMA) is a related Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to attend meetings in which public business is discussed. "Public bodies", defined similarly as in FOIA, are required to provide advance notice of meetings to the public and maintain minutes for public inspection. All discussions of public business ...
Open Meetings Act Status: Amended The Illinois Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA / ˈ f ɔɪ j ə / FOY -yə ), 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq. , is an Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to copy and inspect public records in the state.
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 Oklahoma Board of Education took no action on a proposed lawsuit designed to keep legislators out of the board's executive sessions
The legislation would amend the Illinois Open Meetings Act to render such background checks a felony act. Buckner was the House sponsor of Senate Bill 1599 which was sponsored by Elgie Sims in the Illinois Senate. It amended the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act in relation to the dissemination of criminal record information.
Chicago City Council committees violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act and their own rules by meeting and taking actions without a quorum at least four times over the same four-month span. [50] Over half of elected Chicago alderpersons took illegal campaign contributions totalling $282,000 in 2013. [51] [52] [53]
Commissioners hold nine-minute meeting to elect clerk. After the Central Committee meeting, board members sent a letter to the commissioners ranking the three applicants for the clerk job.
Also in 2014, she was investigated by the Illinois Attorney General for violating Illinois' Open Meetings Act [9] for failure to give adequate notice that two referendums were to be on a public meetings agenda.