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  <title>Illinois FOIA &amp; OMA Reference: 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(15)</title>
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  <updated>2020-07-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Evanston Board of Ethics did not violate OMA by entering closed session on ethics jurisdiction</title>
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    <updated>2020-07-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>A citizen alleged that a municipal ethics board improperly held closed session to consider its jurisdiction over ethics complaints. The PAC determined that the complaints and a complainant's argument constituted &quot;evidence or testimony&quot; properly considered in closed session under the Open Meetings Act's quasi-adjudicative exception, and that the board had issued, or committed to issue, written decisions setting out its reasoning as that exception requires. The board did not improperly enter close</summary>
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