Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Penalize the Whistleblowers

So much for government actually answering to taxpayers (You have to read all the way to the end of hte linked article to get to this one):
  • The county will also seek to plug any leaks of confidential summary reports that come from the county’s Office of the Independent Inspector General. The amendment to the ordinance governing the inspector general’s office will make it so that anyone who releases confidential summary reports — such as the one detailing Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker removing toilets from the mansion next door to his Gold Coast home that the Sun-Times reported on in October — could face fines and jail time.

    The county’s top watchdog, Pat Blanchard, said his office had never experienced a leak of that nature before the release of the Pritzker report.

    [...] Anyone who leaks summary reports may now “be subject to a penalty of up to six months imprisonment and fines up to $5,000.00 per violation” — a “hefty” penalty, according to Blanchard.

    Suffredin is also leading the charge on the changes to the inspector general’s ordinance, which was introduced last year. He says it “undermines the ability” of the inspector general to do deep-dive investigations if the preliminary findings are immediately made public.

    [...] “The balance that our office is always kind of engaged in is protecting the confidentiality of witnesses and sources, but transparency is also an issue,” Blanchard said. “What this will do is make clear to recipients and secondary recipients of reports that they can’t release them for political purpose.”
It also undermines the ability of voters to see just how corrupt Cook County, Chicago and Illinois politicians truly are. It's amusing how they demand "transparency" for everyone....except where they do their dirty business.

And who do they think they're fooling? They've released all manner of reports for political purposes. We remember way back in 2004, the Tribune was directed to sue for the sealed divorce records of one Jack Ryan, who was running for the US Senate against some unknown Machine creation named Obama.

In Illinois politics, everything would seem to be fair game - it was just used against a democrat this time.

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15 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do as I say, not as I do....... Hope and (gag) Change, Chicago Values....
Barf.

12/12/2018 12:34:00 AM  
Anonymous james leonard said...

Sure Preckwinkle and her band of criminals want to keep the robbers, rapists, shoplifters and all the other criminals OUT of jail, but make sure we lock up people who are trying to get information to the public about our corrupt politicians.

12/12/2018 12:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All I know is that I'm looking forward to reading The Inspector General 's full report after he is done investigating Commander Anthony Escamilla and his alleged abuse of city resources. I'm sure the IG's findings will be thorough, fair, well detailed, and impartial. I have faith in the system and am counting on the IG to do the right thing for the sake of transparency.

12/12/2018 03:05:00 AM  
Blogger stash the polski guy said...

just putting a heavier paper weight on any FOIA request.

surprised they are not using the national security angle.

12/12/2018 04:56:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

Anyone one else get this one? Leaked? Toilets? Oh well.

12/12/2018 06:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why not just get rid of FOIA too because it is useless! There is no stopping the taxes, graft and corruption that is illannoy! WAY PAST TIME TO MOVE!

12/12/2018 09:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this the "wall of silence" the elected morons use to save themselves from "sunshine and transparency?" This is like watching President Trump masterfully bring in old lady pelosi and chucky shumer into the oval yesterday and surprise them with an open meeting with cameras they were pissed wanted everything behind secured closed doors so they could wheel a payoff!

12/12/2018 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Typical they never ask "who did this?" they say "who told." This gives the massive amount of darkness more cover to continue the criminal conduct unabated in the most corruption filled swamp in the USA>

12/12/2018 09:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago IG reports are online, COPA reports are online, CPS IG reports are online ... Cook County wants to keep theirs secret. They must be hiding some stellar illegal shenanigans.

12/12/2018 10:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Same bullshit, different day. I live outta state now, still won't sign my name. I have relatives in and around Chicago.
Crook county is FUBAR.

12/12/2018 12:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They hope to accomplish this before Feb?
Prickwrinkle had been using her County ride for campaigning and her defrocked driver had something to say, but FakeNews won’t stir that pot anymore.
PugNastyWrinkle recently stated she doesn’t even use that suv.
Bullshit.
I’ve seen her and the driver blue light it into O’Hare probably late as usual for a flight.
Then has the audacity to stay in line with her boxes of filing petitions for a photo-op, while likely on County time, transported by County employeee in a County vehicle.
Try to ask her and she says nothing and/or walks out, which is essentially Fk y’all.

Remember when JJ Jr. challenged the Fed to “bring it on” ?
After Burke I hope they raid the Prickwrinkle Operation.

12/12/2018 03:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very interesting indeed.

12/12/2018 03:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Civilian here.

Outrageous...such BS. Is this what we have become?

A proposal penalizing someone for blowing the whistle on fraud and corruption?

A proposed gas tax increase of .30/gallon from a man who never has to be troubled filling up his gas tank?

A proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate that portion of government employee pensions that states that theyare enforceable contracts that “shall not be diminished or impaired?” It's just a way to eliminate define benefit pension plans just as was done by private corporations (who cheated hundreds of thousands of employees out of their pensions).

Or how about the "alleged" election fraud perpetrated on that 19 year old DePaul student who has the audacity to challenge the incumbent in the 14th ward? Sending to the State's Attorney's office or the Illinois Attorney General's office for investigation would be a joke. U.S. Justice Department, now we're talking.

Want to fix pensions? Fine...new hires can get the 401 plans, but don't solve the pension crisis on the backs of those who fulfilled their contribution obligations while the city and state took "holidays" from theirs. Eliminate the TIF programs which are just welfare for the rich developers and other "movers and shakers" who either won the gene pool or had the good fortune to know the right people.

12/12/2018 03:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CONTROL--CONTROL-- CONTROL the demorat way

12/12/2018 05:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the politicians want to solve the pension problems they should lead by example. Start with the judges, elected officials, aldermen , water reclamation district,etc

12/12/2018 06:18:00 PM  

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