Rockford Police Benevolent & Protective Ass'n v. Morrissey

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• observing that under the prior version of section 11(i), the court may deny an award of attorney fees where the plaintiff proceeds pro se
• court rejected argument that the personnel file exemption applied to a department as a whole, saying the exemption prevents “an invasion of an individual’s personal privacy”
• an abuse of discretion will be found where the court applied the wrong legal standard
• under the FOIA, public records are presumed to be open and accessible; when a public body receives a proper request for information, it must comply with the request unless one of the section 7 exemptions applies

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