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  <title>Illinois FOIA &amp; OMA Reference: 7.5(h)</title>
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    <title>Chicago Public Schools did not violate FOIA by withholding OIG laptop inventory data under 7.5(h)</title>
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    <updated>2025-06-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>The requester sought a school-by-school breakdown of the roughly 77,505 lost or stolen technology devices cited in a CPS Inspector General report, and the district's IT department provided a different, non-matching current dataset instead. The PAC determined that dataset was not responsive, and that the actual responsive records - the raw asset-management data CPS provided to and the OIG analyzed for its report - were properly exempt as inspector-general investigatory records. The district's ult</summary>
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