Lightfoot Administration Walks Back Aggressive COVID-19 FOIA Policy – WBEZ (Chicago)

Hours after City of Chicago officials started issuing automatic denials for public records — citing staff shortage because of the COVID-19 pandemic — officials backed off the policy, saying records requests would be evaluated “case by case.”

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