Cook County Sheriff 2018 FOIA Campaign Target

Cook County Sheffi’ 2018 FOIA Campaign Target
CPD FOIA for emails regarding hiring of 1000 more officers

Here is the content of our most recent FOIA submitted to the Chicago Police Department. This one is going after emails to and from Superintendent Johnson regarding his announcement in September 2016 to hire 1,000 additional officers for the Chicago Police Department. We will post updates as we get them. Please provide in unlocked digital […]
OEMC Call For Police Service Data FOIA

The following FOIA request was filed on 9/13/17 Please provide the following records in accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act in digital machine ready format: 1. All police call for service data maintained by the Office of Emergency Management & Communications for the time frame of Jan 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017. […]
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority FOIA

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority plays a unique role in the State of Illinois. It manages federal grant money and also facilitates some research on criminal justice issues in the State. Oddly enough the Authority’s leader was extremely against our Sexual Assault Task Force. He had to be pushed to attend a meeting by […]
Secret City CPD Report

The City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department certainly seem like they want to keep the work by Michael Bromwich secret and away from the public. It is pretty clear that Michael Bromwich of the Bromwich Group was hired by the Emanuel Administration to study some aspect of policing in Chicago. Here is some […]
CPD FOIA for District Staffing by Year

This FOIA request was filed with the Chicago Police Department related to district staffing on April 10, 2017. Please provide copies of the following records in accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. A. Please provide records that detail staffing by district for January 1st of every year for the years of 2000-2017. Please […]
New FOIA Verifying SAO Practices

On Tuesday March 7, 2017 the Chicago Justice Project filed the following request for records under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO). Unfortunately our FOIA lawsuit has dragged on for over a year now and despite the promise of Kim Foxx taking the office in December we have […]
Domestic Violence Database CPD FOIA

The following FOIA was filed with the Chicago Police Department on February 17, 2017: Please provide the following records in digital format under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act: A. Please provide the database records related to domestic violence that were provide to ABC Chicago News and are reported on in this news report: http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1759112 Please […]
FOIA Seeking CPD Crime Incident Data

This request for Chicago Police Department’s crime incident data under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act was filed via email with the Chicago Police Department on Jan 20, 2017. Check back as we will be posting the CPD’s response and any followup from us when we get them. This FOIA is part of our ongoing […]
FOIA CPD Police Calls for Service Data

On January 6, 2017 we filled the following FOIA request with the Chicago Police Department seeking records regarding their storage of police call for service data created by the Office of Emergency Management & Communications. Please provide the following records in digital format where possible: A. Copy of data dictionary / code book from the […]