The Shelby County Dive Commander, Austin Prichard, has refused to provide a roster of the members of the dive team after it ...

Shelby County State’s Attorney Ruth Woolery has requested a legal opinion from the Attorney General’s Opinions Bureau on the questions of conflict of interest. The ...

According to a Coles County Sheriff’s Department Press Release, Andrew Towell and Katelynn Bowman, both from Paris, Illinois, ...

We conducted a routine audit of campaign donations using the State Board of Elections database and certain keywords. One of ...

Two Thornton Township Trustees published a press release detailing why they will not attend the special township meeting ...

The Orland Fire Protection District entered into a contract with a “consultant” to provide diversity consulting to the ...

Facebook user Joy Schreiber noticed that the Illinois Bingo License and Tax Act permits local governments to conduct BINGO games “subject to” the restriction of a $10 maximum prize value for each game ...

This is a story of state actors failing the public, with tragic results. One individual with a commercial driver’s license (“CDL”) was involved in three “accidents” or incidents within a four-year ...

Seminole County, FL (ECWd) - Our sister organization, the American Watchdogs Inc., provided their local government accountability training earlier in the year to just under 100 local citizens in ...

Washington DC (ECWd)- The Department of Justice Inspector General's FISA report has been released and can be downloaded at this link. While there is a lot to absorb in over 475 pages of information, a ...

From Illinois Answers Project: A few years ago, Coles County Jail promised to stop using electrified “stun cuffs” to shock people restrained in chairs. How much has changed? ECWd note: Current Coles ...

The Shelby County Board held a special meeting tonight for the presentation of the forensic audit of the County Sheriff’s office payroll from 2015 to 2020. Our investigation into payroll fraud began ...