https://illinoisfoia.org/exemptions/7/ 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-59166/ 2020-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patton requested text messages from a commissioner's phone from the Calumet Memorial Park District. The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Bureau determined that the District failed to conduct a reasonable search for records responsive to his FOIA request. The Bureau concluded that the District's arguments about the form of the request and the definition of public records were not valid, but the document does not state that the District was ordered to conduct a new search or provide a

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2015-pac-36548/ 2015-11-09T00:00:00Z

The requester sought certified payroll records for state highway construction projects in a county, and the state transportation department denied the request as unduly burdensome, citing the labor involved in redacting the hundreds of pages of records. The Public Access Counselor held that the department's denial came after FOIA's five-business-day response deadline had already passed, which by itself barred it from claiming undue burden, and separately concluded that because the legislature sp

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2014-pac-29590/ 2014-09-08T00:00:00Z

The requester sought records concerning a village clerk's participation in a conference, including communications, billing records, contribution documentation, and expense records. The village government responded that it had no responsive records and also claimed part of the request was unduly burdensome under section 3(g) because it was a repeat of an earlier request that had allegedly been "properly denied." The PAC found that the village government violated FOIA in multiple ways: it failed t