The Chicago Tribune scored a legal victory as a Cook County judge ruled the city improperly fought to keep secret documents for cases of alleged employee misconduct, even though the Illinois attorney general had agreed with the news organization.
The Chicago Tribune scored a legal victory on Tuesday as a Cook County judge ruled the city of Chicago improperly fought to keep secret documents for cases of alleged employee misconduct, even though the Illinois attorney general had agreed with the news organization., and ordered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration to produce the records by no later than Oct. 4.“We are grateful the judge has confirmed our position,” said Tribune Executive Editor Mitch Pugh. “Yet, the facts were always clear.
The Tribune further alleged the city “thumbed its nose” at the newspaper and the attorney general’s office over records Gorner sought in May 2021 about misconduct allegations involving ranking members of the Chicago Fire Department. City officials will be allowed limited redactions of names and also of information that identifies people who complained about the alleged misconduct, but the Tribune will have the opportunity to challenge any redactions that appear to be improper, said attorney Melissa Pryor, who argued the Tribune’s case.After the city’s initial refusal to comply with the public records requests, the Tribune took both of the disputes to the attorney general’s office.
Calling the city’s reasoning “inconsistent and insupportable,” the Tribune charged “one of the city’s true motives in refusing to produce documents responsive to the September FOIA is to protect from embarrassment those city employees who have been accused of discrimination or harassment and other city employees who are tasked with investigating, responding and remedying such claims.”
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