Green v. Chicago Police Dept.

This case presents question as to whether trial court properly granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action seeking production of 44 years of all closed complaint files concerning all Chicago police officers under circumstances where trial court had entered injunction precluding defendant from producing said records at time plaintiff made instant FOIA request, but had subsequently vacated said injunction. Appellate Court, in reversing trial court, found that propriety of defendant’s response to FOIA request is at time decision denying FOIA was made, and thus trial court erred in ordering defendant to produce said files pursuant to plaintiff’s original FOIA request, since injunction precluded defendant from producing them at of defendant's denial. (Dissent filed.)