Trustees Vote 6-0 to Release Confidential Legal Report
Oak Lawn trustees won't fight freedom of information act request for confidential legal report on former village attorney.
The Oak Lawn Village Board will not fight a freedom of information act request filed by mayoral candidate Dr. Sandra Bury to release a confidential legal report into the former village attorneys on Tuesday. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Village trustees voted unanimously not to fight Bury’s appeal to the Illinois Attorney General after the village denied her FOIA request in July. Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney and Preiss—now known as Tressler LLP—settled with the village for $500,000 in April after a lengthy investigation of its legal billings by a Wisconsin-based firm specializing in white-collar defense and investigations. The settlement came with a confidentiality agreement that the report compiled …
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2:39 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012
Mayoral candidate Sandra Bury, I must congradulate you on a brilliant campaign move. The release of this report is basically a $500,00.00 campaign contribution to you, paid for by the Oak Lawn taxpayers. Oh yea, I know...people have the right to know, people need to know...transparency .....bla bla bla, but at the end of the day nothing changes for the taxpayer while you on the other hand have a … more ›