On July 17th the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office released their Do Not Call List made up of many CPD officers who for various reasons the office will not longer call as witnesses. While the existence of the list is an important step forward in accountability for CPD officers the list itself if very limited because it doesn’t provide any further information about the officers.

In a recent episode of our YouTube series Good & Bad Justice Journalism we detail the massive shortcomings in the media’s reporting on the release of this list. It is embedded below.

As we state in the video we do not trust the Chicago media to provide the public with the details on even the very basic facts of the CPD officers that made the list. Thus, we have filed the FOIAs detailed below to get the information the public needs.

FOIA Content

Date:   July 22, 2023

To:     Chicago Police Department

Re:     FOIA Request: Employment Status

In accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., 5 ILCS 140, I request that your office provide the following public records:

FOIA A

Please provide records sufficient to show the following information for all the current and former sworn officers of the Chicago Police Department who are listed on the Do Not Call List recently released by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) on July 17^th. We have provided a list of the individuals on the list that at some point worked as a sworn officer of your department in Appendix A.

1. Start date of employment
2. End date of employment
3. Reason for leaving the department
4. Rank at the time of departure
5. Assignment at time of departure
6. All complaint registry numbers associated with each individual

FOIA B

1. Records sufficient to show Your efforts to locate and produce the records requested in FOIA A above. This should include:
2. Where you searched for responsive Records and Documents.
3. Who searched for responsive Records and Documents.
4. Who was requested to produce responsive Records and Documents.
5. The identify of any Records and Documents that were located but not produced for any reason.

DEFINITIONS

“Document” and/or “Documents” means any documents or electronically stored information of any kind—including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, sound recordings, images, and other data or data compilations—stored in any medium from which information can be obtained either directly or, if necessary, after translation by the responding party into a reasonably usable form.

“You” or “Your” means the {Public Body}, and all attorneys, employees, officers, directors, bureaus, offices, divisions or subdivisions of same.

INSTRUCTIONS

If the agency withholds any document or information pertinent to the requests made herein, please identify the document or information in as much detail as is possible, and detail in specific language why each document or piece of information is being withheld.

If any information requested herein is withheld on the basis of a claim of privilege or other protection as material prepared in anticipation of litigation or trial, then that claim shall be made expressly in a writing that describes the nature of the Documents, Communications, or Things not produced or disclosed in a manner that will enable us to assess the applicability of the privilege or protection. With regard to each claim of privilege or protection, the following information should be provided in the response or the objection:

(a) the type of Document, e.g., letter or memorandum;

(b) general subject matter of the Document;

(c) the date of the Document;

(d) such other information as is sufficient to identify the Document for a subpoena duces tecum, including, where appropriate, the author, addressee, and any other recipient of the Document, and, where not apparent, the relationship of the author, addressee, and any other recipient to each other; and

(e) the nature of the privilege or protection;

(f) if applicable, the litigation or trial of which the document was created in anticipation.

If any Document identified herein has been lost, discarded, or destroyed, each such Document should be identified as completely as possible, including as to each such Document, its date, general nature (e.g., letter, memorandum, telegram, telex, photograph, computer printout), subject matter, each author or originator, each person indicated as an addressee or copy recipient, and its former custodian(s). In addition, as to each such Document, the following information shall be supplied:

(a) date of disposal, loss, or destruction;

(b) manner of disposal, loss, or destruction;

(c) reason for disposal or destruction, or any explanation of loss;

(d) persons authorizing the disposal or destruction;

(e) persons having knowledge of the disposal, destruction, or loss; and

(f) persons who destroyed, lost, or disposed or the Document or Thing.

I look forward to hearing from you in writing within five working days, as required by the Act 5 ILCS 140(3).  Please direct all questions or responses to this FOIA request to this email address by responding to this email. I can be reached at tsiska@chicagojustice.org 

Appendix A

Last Name	Frist Name	Star Number
Adreani	John	6621
Akins	Daryl	17487
Andrews	Antrinius	11584
Ardelean	John	14915
Bakker	Robert
Bergeson	Michael	6734
Bolanos	Adolfo	16767
Bolling	Richard	16517
Bolton	Brian	15903
Bondi	Robert	2498
Boone	Elvin	1964
Bove	Christopher	8230
Bradley	Valena	17810
Brown	Aldo	13838
Brown	Victor	6098
Bryant	Dana	12628
Bunge	Kevin
Burg	Jason	12143
Calhoun	Carlyle
Calize La Casa	Susana	8686
Capouch	Henry	4523
Chwiesiuk	Karol	7156
Clavijo	Paul	11392
Coleman	Ronald	5922
Collins	Brian	16773
Collins	Rupert	4430
Contreras	Luis	13529
Cozzi	William	4129
Dailey	Sean	10890
Deleon	David	17293
Durkin	Michael	10663
Edwards	Darryl	16280
Eldridge	James	2081
Elizondo	Xavier	1340
Elkins	Eric
Elmesquine	Amine	17593
English	Mitchell	7647
Fair	Daniel	9778
Fiorito	Richard	11624
Franklin	James	15170
Franko	Stephen	1537
Fry	Kevin	15329
Gilmore	Patrick	1685
Gonzalez	Robert	12152
Gonzalez	Enrique	19071
Gonzalez	James
Guebara	Victor	17147
Guevara	Reynaldo
Heard	Ronald	9622
Hernandez	Marcos	7919
Hillas	Christopher	16384
Howard	Edward	2337
Hunt	James	11442
Jarocki	Marc	2778
Jones	Alvin	815/19462
Kahn	Brett	17785
Kelly	Michael	6950
Kelly	Patrick	19397
Kriv	Jeffrey	19265
Kropp III	Edward	15874
Lara	Edwing
Leano	Manuel
Lewis	Lamonica	11145
Lewis	Donnie	4303
Liakopoulos	Christopher
Lobianco	Robert	16172
Maltbia	Corey	16764
Marquez	Rigoberto	7516
McGrone	Marcus	9094
Mohammed	Kallatt	11649
Mondragon	Janet	7358
Monroe	Shawn
Morgan	Vince	14122
Morrow	Jeffrey	5198
Mostowski	Richard	17957
Mowry	Erin	12898
Neely	Winford	12708
Nichols	Douglas	15773
Page	Deavalin	1210
Pallohusky	John	15283
Pruente	William	2612
Reynoso	Ruben
Ridgell	Calvin	16114
Riley	Matthew	6997
Rodriguez	Erika	11197
Rodriguez	Harold	11057
Roy	Tan	20492
Ruiz	Giselle	17679
Salgado	David	18537
Sanchez	Jose	16347
Schaaf	Jeffrey	516
Sebastian	Daphne	5476
Shafer	Jeffrey	2763
Siler	Chavez
Simonetti	Marcos
Smith, Jr.	Elsworth	19086
Spencer	Qwon	14568
St. Clair	Michael	11737
Summers	Gerome	15527
Swistowicz	Craig	19687
Sylvestre	Valerie
Takaki	Michael	8239
Taylor	Kevin	18617
Treacy	Joseph	17121
Truesdale	Samuel	17619
Turner	Vernal	20816
Tyler	Pierre	14916
Ugarte	Armando	10228
Van Dyke	Jason	15050
Vasquez	Juan	9465
Velez	Jose	15054
Villanueva	Arturo	19367
Vincent	Anthony	14209
Viramontes	Ricardo	15162
Vitellaro	Michael
Watts	Ronald	10590
Welch	John	2640
Whelehan	William	7551
Williams	Wendy	7949
Wodnicki	James	19091
Young	Kenneth	15289
Zoller	Francis	17931
Zulfic	Alen	8649