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University of Illinois (ECWd) –
So, not only do they give the award to people defending free public access to child porn (under the guise of defending Intellectual Freedom), but at least one of the trustee admitted to, and was caught on video, spewing homophobic slurs like “Faggot” and “Gay” while outside of the City of Orland Park’s Administration Building.
The below video is of a Trustee finally admitting that child porn was accessed in the library, that the staff knew about it, and did not call the police department. Barbara Jones was sitting right there when Trustee Jennings, the one caught using gay slurs, admitted the child porn was accessed. She is the one who recommended them for the award. Even after she was sitting there and they admitted that they allowed child porn to be accessed.
Other things the Library has done this past year was to violate the Open Meetings Act on a continuous basis, and violate the Freedom of Information Act multiple times by censoring and abridging the freedom of individuals to utilize their RIGHT to review public records. They did this by employing attorneys to fight FOIA and OMA rights of citizens, and it has cost them well over $160,000.00 so far – and the Library keeps losing their battles. This is a premier example of the need to change FOIA to make the individual financially responsible when fighting production of public records, instead of the taxpayers picking up the tab.
So they receive an award, based on: “resisted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals” while also participating in such things as, violating the First Amendment free speech rights of citizens to address their public officials, calling in a police report when citizens were exercising their First Amendment free speech rights in handing out flyers, hold illegal meetings to keep people from using their free speech rights, among other unimaginable things.
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