“NPI performs a governmental function on behalf of the MPEA,” the panel wrote in its 15-page opinion, “and the records BGA requested directly relate to NPI’s performance of that governmental function.” The judges added that MPEA can’t “use the arrangement with NPI to avoid disclosure of the documents BGA requested.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.