by Check CU | Apr 12, 2024 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois City Attorney David Wesner (far right) argued that the City of Urbana is not required to post meeting minutes online because, according to him, the City website is not maintained by full-time staff. The Attorney General has finally issued a...
by Check CU | Jan 5, 2024 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois City Attorney (right) argues that the City of Urbana is not required to post meeting minutes online because, according to him, the City website is not maintained by full-time staff. (also pictured: Council member James Quisenberry, City Administrator...
by Check CU | Jan 5, 2024 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois Mayor Diane Marlin issued a letter on January 4th acknowledging that part of a Plan Commission meeting she attended last month was unlawfully closed to the public (Photo by ILDocs.com) Less than 24 hours after the Illinois Attorney General...
by Check CU | Jan 4, 2024 | Latest Articles
Members of the Urbana, Illinois Plan Commission began to leave the Council Chambers to hold a closed meeting in the 2nd floor conference room. (top right: City Attorney David Wesner, Mayor Diane Marlin, and a City staff member) The Illinois Attorney General has...
by Check CU | Dec 29, 2023 | Latest Articles
Members of the Urbana, Illinois Plan Commission began to leave the Council Chambers to hold a closed meeting in the 2nd floor conference room. (top right: City Attorney David Wesner, Mayor Diane Marlin, and a City staff member) We were recently alerted to a highly...
by Check CU | Mar 17, 2023 | Latest Articles
Urbana City Clerk Charlie Smyth pioneered records denial schemes that continue to be repeated and cause damage today In recognition of Sunshine Week, Check CU presents the elected official who pioneered illegal public records denial schemes for the City of Urbana,...
by Check CU | Aug 7, 2022 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois Mayor Diane Marlin became visibly upset at a recent Council meeting after Council members did not unanimously approve her list of a dozen City officials. The list was presented for a Council vote on June 6th and included two year appointments to...
by Check CU | Jul 26, 2022 | Latest Articles
Rantoul, Illinois Village Attorney David Wesner and Police Chief Tony Brown are not only concealing police misconduct records, they are asking the court to overturn public records laws that have existed for over four decades A Champaign County judge denied an attempt...
by Check CU | Jun 22, 2022 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois City Attorney was reappointed by the City Council for an additional two years The Urbana, Illinois City Council has opted to reappoint David Wesner as City Attorney, despite his reputation for getting municipalities into legal trouble with dubious...
by Check CU | Apr 13, 2022 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois City Officials appear to be more concerned with finding ways to deny and delay public records requests than they are with providing the actual records. The City routinely takes months to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from...
by Check CU | Apr 11, 2022 | Latest Articles
University of Illinois PhD graduate and Urbana resident Tracy Chong speaks during public input about FOIA violations The Urbana, Illinois City Council shows no signs of changing their well-established practice of ignoring residents’ reports of Freedom of Information...
by Check CU | Apr 8, 2022 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois City Council member for Ward 7 James Quisenberry at the April 4th, 2022 Council meeting Since mid-2021, residents have been making requests to the Urbana, Illinois City Council to allow remote public input at their in-person meetings in the same way...
by Check CU | Apr 7, 2022 | Latest Articles
Urbana, Illinois Mayor Diane Marlin and Council members Jaya Kolisetty, Grace Wilken, Christopher Evans, James Quisenberry, Shirese Hursey, Chaundra Bishop, and Maryalice Wu The entire Urbana, Illinois City Council seems content simply ignoring numerous public records...
by Check CU | Apr 6, 2022 | Latest Articles
On December 16th, 2021 Check CU Founder Christopher Hansen filed a lawsuit against the Village of Rantoul alleging violations of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Rantoul unlawfully denied access to copies of complaints against police officers, and...
by Check CU | Apr 6, 2022 | Latest Articles
On January 21st, 2022 Check CU sent a public records request to Village of Rantoul Clerk and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer Janet Gray seeking police complaints from 2010 through 2018. Gray passed the request off to Village Attorney David Wesner who,...
