Public knowledge obstructed in Schaumburg | Open Illinois.org
January 21st, 2009 | by Brian Costin Published in Blog, Features, Media Hits, Transparency
A story on the plight of the Schaumburg Freedom Coalition’s efforts to introduce comprehensive transparency reforms to the people of Schaumburg has been picked up by OpenIllinois.org, a project of the Illinois Policy Institute.
Public knowledge obstructed in Schaumburg | Open Illinois.org.
More importantly than what Brian writes, however, is the information he’s collected through the Freedom of Information Act and posted on his website. Currently, the page includes Schaumburg Convention Center budgets from 2007-2009, and the village’s expenditure reports from October and November of last year. His call to action is: “Happy hunting!”
Brian plans to make more documents public as he receives them, a process that can take a good deal of time and money given the current opacity of the village board.
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