Through this new law, we are getting documents that should always have been open to the public actually turned over,” Madigan said. “The changes to FOIA are really sweeping. We had to do this to directly confront the long-entrenched culture of secrecy in Illinois.”
Madigan said that she had dedicated herself to creating transparency and holding public officials accountable. She described several cases in which her office succeeded in reducing or exposing waste and corruption, protecting the public from scams and ensuring the criminal justice system is working.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Madigan delivers lecture on professionalism at NIU Law
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