https://illinoisfoia.org/public-bodies/will-county-sheriff-s-office/ 2024-12-30T00:00:00Z https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-81145/ 2024-12-30T00:00:00Z

A reporter requested a list of local sheriff's deputies who also serve as U.S. Marshals. The Sheriff's Office refused to release the names, claiming it would put the officers in danger. The Attorney General's office concluded that the Sheriff's Office did not provide enough evidence to prove this risk and that its response violated FOIA.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-78704/ 2024-06-20T00:00:00Z

A requester asked the Will County Sheriff's Office for police records and video footage related to a specific case. The Sheriff's Office refused to release the files, and the Attorney General's office agreed, finding that the records were protected by law because they involved a juvenile. This means the public cannot access these specific records due to strict privacy rules regarding juvenile law enforcement files.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-80480/ 2024-05-03T00:00:00Z

A requester asked for emails regarding a specific questionnaire used by the Will County Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office provided the emails but redacted the actual test questions to prevent cheating or compromising the test. The Attorney General's office agreed that these redactions were legal and appropriate.

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/letter-55719/ 2018-12-03T00:00:00Z

A requester asked for copies of their own medical and classification records from the Will County Sheriff's Office and requested that the copying fees be waived due to financial hardship. The Attorney General's office found that while FOIA allows for free copies of the first 50 pages, public bodies have the legal choice to decide whether to waive fees for additional pages. Because the Sheriff's Office followed the law regarding standard fees and was not required to grant a waiver, the PAC closed

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2017-pac-47695/ 2017-08-14T00:00:00Z

The requester, a radio reporter, sought two 9-1-1 call recordings connected to a widely reported child's death, and the sheriff's office withheld both as containing exempt biometric identifiers and withheld one further as likely to interfere with its active investigation. The Public Access Counselor held that an ordinary voice recording is not a "biometric identifier" absent some measurement or analysis of the voice itself, and that the sheriff's office's conclusory assertion of investigative in

https://illinoisfoia.org/opinions/2014-pac-29297/ 2014-08-19T00:00:00Z

The requester sought photographs of a former auxiliary deputy from the sheriff's department. The sheriff's department denied the request, arguing the photographs were exempt "private information" because they contained "biometric identifiers." The Public Access Counselor found that the photographs were general in nature and did not focus on any unique physical attribute used to identify a person, so they did not qualify as biometric identifiers under the common meaning of that term. Because FOIA