This article was written by Jeff P. Hutson and is reposted with permission. We’ve heard about the scandal for months. 600+ pages of proof, evidence, and documents. Yet there is still so much ...

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” ...

On January 14, 2019, Illinois Senator (57th District) Christopher Belt filed a false Statement of Economic Interest related to his position as a Legislator. Belt was appointed to fill the vacancy left ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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