On March 21st, 2022 Check CU Founder Christopher Hansen asked the City of Champaign, Illinois to provide copies of complaints submitted against police officers in 2021 and 2022. Three days later, City Clerk Shannon Myers fully denied the request.
Myers claimed that releasing the complaints would interfere with pending or contemplated law enforcement and administrative proceedings, and that the records were also exempt as “preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations, memoranda and other records in which opinions are expressed….”
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) denial issued by Records Manager & Acting City Clerk Shannon Myers is provided below.
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