CJP Takes Transparency Fight Against CPD to Court
On Tuesday, May 22nd the Chicago Justice Project filed took their transparency fight to court by filing a 10 complaint in state court against the Chicago Police Department for widespread violations of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. The complaint details a pattern by the Department of either completely ignoring requests or only providing minimal […]
Cook County Sheriff FOIA Number One
This is the first request filed as part of our 2018 FOIA Campaign. Our target for this year’s campaign is the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office staffs and administers Cook County Jail, guards the courts throughout Cook County, runs the Sheriff’s Police. There is far too little information about the daily operations of […]
CPD Internal Affairs FOIA
This FOIA request targeting the Internal Affairs Division of the Chicago Police Department is one of the last requests that we will be filing as part of our 2017 FOIA Campaign. Please provide the following records in machine readable digital format in accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. A. Provide all data related […]
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 […]
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 […]