We are closely monitoring the U.S. Department of Education’s policy guidance concerning investigations of sexual assaults and sexual violence on school campuses, applicable to both K-12 and higher education institutions throughout the country. Media outlets, including the New York Times, are […]
Category: Higher Education
Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor Issues Binding Opinions Regarding FOIA Exemptions
June 29, 2017
The Public Access Counselor (PAC) of the Illinois Attorney General’s office recently issued two binding opinions addressing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Specifically, the opinions found two public bodies in violation of FOIA for improper application of the “deliberative […]
Candice Jackson, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, recently provided a “new internal guidance” memorandum to staff that significantly changes the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) protocols for investigating civil rights […]
IL Supreme Court Rules IHSA Not Subject to FOIA
June 15, 2017
The FOIA litigation saga continues as the Illinois Supreme Court in Better Government Association v. IHSA ruled in favor of the athletic association and High School District 230, holding that the records requested are not public records subject to the Freedom […]
Recently the Second District Appellate Court issued an opinion holding that the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) applied to certain records in the possession of the College of DuPage Foundation, a 501(c)(3) entity separate from the College of DuPage. […]
The NLRB Opens the Door to Union Organizing Among Undergraduate Resident Advisors at Colleges and Universities
April 27, 2017
In what will come as no surprise to even the most casual labor law observer, last Friday an Acting Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board created a new inroad for unions to organize undergraduate resident advisors on private […]
The wait for a final resolution of the legal issues surrounding transgender students will be extended as the result of a decision today by the United State Supreme Court in the landmark case, Gloucester County School Bd. v. G.G. Following the Trump […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) jointly issued a statement rescinding the guidance on transgender students’ rights under Title IX issued to school districts nationwide in May. The prior administration’s guidance had confirmed that the DOJ […]