Commentary: It’s time to make Illinois courts subject to the public-records law – Injustice Watch

"State Rep. Curtis Tarver II introduced a bill last week, House Bill 2455, to close the judicial FOIA loophole and expressly make the court system in Illinois subject to the public-records law... Illinois is the only state in the country where these sorts of financial and administrative records of the courts are not available either through FOIA or by court rules or other state laws, according to research by the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Civic Federation."