Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, March 9, 2017.
Journalist Jamie Kalven sues police for failure to release Laquan McDonald records
Independent journalist Jamie Kalven is suing the Chicago Police Department for allegedly violating the Freedom of Information Act by not releasing records about the police’s alleged cover-up of the death of Laquan McDonald. Kalven requested the records from the Office of the Inspector General of Chicago’s investigation into police misconduct in the handling of McDonald’s fatal shooting but was denied on the grounds that Illinois’s FOIA law exempts inspector general investigations. “The CPD’s denial is based on a misreading of the relevant law,” Kalven’s attorney Craig Futterman said in a statement. “The IG reports, now in the possession of the CPD, are the equivalent of closed IPRA investigations.” [Sun-Times]
