The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago over records on cases involving misconduct allegations that officials have refused to release.
The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago over records on cases involving misconduct allegations that officials have refused to release despite two separate attorney general opinions in the newspaper’s favor.
The city “thumbed its nose” at the Tribune and the attorney general’s office over records that Gorner sought in May 2021 about misconduct allegations involving ranking members of the Chicago Fire Department, the lawsuit says. Chicago City Hall is seen in 2019. The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city over records on cases involving misconduct allegations that officials have refused to release.
In both cases, the Tribune said it asked the city for responses that redacted the names of people complaining of mistreatment in order to protect their privacy.[Most read] Daily horoscope for February 7, 2022The AG in a nonbinding opinion said the city “improperly denied” Pratt’s request.
Chicago officials further argued it sought to protect the alleged victims from retaliation — a position the paper contended was “ignoring the fact that the only entity that could conceivably retaliate against any complainants was the city itself,” the lawsuit said.
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