Closing A Back Door In Illinois FOIA
I Went To SQL Injection Court 9 February 2025 Should public bodies in Illinois, like cities and school districts and sheriff’s departments, be allowed to hide information from Freedom of Information requests by keeping them in databases? That question is before the 104th Illinois General Assembly,...
Hasnain says:
"Obviously, we should have won on appeal to the Illinois Supremes. If you sit on that court, call me, we can straighten this out.
That said: today, Illinois public bodies can refuse to divulge database schemas.
This is problematic, because more and more data is finding its way out of file cabinets and shared drives and Word documents and into specialized applications, where the only way to get at the underlying data is to FOIA a database query.
Databases shouldn’t be a safe harbor for municipalities to conceal information from the public."
Posted on 2025-05-11T22:39:22+0000