Chicago to FOIA: Drop Dead.

Public officials in Chicago act like its their own money...

by Kate Piercy

The Beachwood Reporter discusses the City of Chicago’s less than stellar response to FOIA requests from the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, which recently released its annual lobbying survey. The survey reported counties and public agencies paid lobbyists nearly $6.4 million to influence their own state government last year.

The report also reveals Chicago’s sweeping disregard for the Freedom of Information Act:

The problem, it seems, is that public officials in Chicago act like it’s their money – and their government. Aside from relying on your money to fund them, you are incidental at best and a treacherous obstacle at worst.

The Beachwood provides a slew of examples highlighting the City of Chicago’s poor response, which you can find here.

Sound familiar?