When a pair of journalists in Chicago both received questionable rejections for open-records requests, they asked the Fund to support a yearlong investigation into city agencies increasingly using “trade secret exemptions” to block access to information. For the Chicago Reader, Max Blaisdell and Matt Chapman filed 70 records requests across 35 city and county agencies […]
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