Action BGA and Illinois Press Association Defend NPR Illinois Reporters' First Amendment Rights In a letter to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, the BGA's David Greising and the IPA's Sam R. Fisher say the university's Title IX policy is at odds with journalists' right to protect confidential sources. Oct 28, 2019 5:00 PM
Action BGA Supports Strengthening City Council Office of Financial Analysis The BGA policy team urges Chicago aldermen to remove obstacles that prevent their fiscal advisory staff from doing its job. The office was created to provide independent guidance on matters involving taxpayer dollars. Oct 4, 2019 5:00 AM
Action BGA Urges Full City Council to Support Ethics Ordinance The BGA policy team urged the full City Council to approve ethics reforms that cover lobbying, outside employment for aldermen and full oversight by the inspector general. Jul 24, 2019 2:00 PM
Action BGA Testifies For Ethics Reforms For Chicago The BGA characterized Mayor Lori Lightfoot's proposed ethics changes "only a start," and urged aldermen to send a strong signal about their commitment to finishing the job. Jul 18, 2019 12:45 PM
Action The BGA’s Agenda for Lori Lightfoot Chicago's new mayor takes office on May 20. She'll need to hit the ground running — and never stop. Here's how she can get off to a good start. May 9, 2019 5:30 PM
Action The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Gets a Watchdog Under an intergovernmental agreement, the wastewater treatment agency will be overseen by Cook County's Inspector General. Apr 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Action Cook County Health Systems Should Livestream Their Meetings With Cook County Health Systems receiving over $100 million from county taxpayers, it makes sense that they should strive for as much transparency as possible. Jan 14, 2019 3:00 PM
Action With One Change Needed to Protect Transparency, the BGA Supports the Consent Decree The BGA testifies that language protecting public access to police documents should be improved in the Chicago police consent decree that is an important achievement. Oct 25, 2018 3:40 PM
Action BGA Policy Team Says Police Draft Consent Decree Needs Transparency Work While the draft Chicago police consent decree is an important step, the BGA’s Policy Team recommends revisions to advance Chicago police transparency. Aug 20, 2018 12:30 PM
Action Curbing Golden Parachutes: BGA Policy Team's Government Severance Pay Act Becomes Law Public executive severance packages will be limited to 20 weeks' salary and no severance is allowed for those fired due to misconduct. Aug 14, 2018 5:16 PM
