St. Clair Co., Ill. (ECWd) –The St. Clair County Veterans Assistance Commission (“VAC”) is violating the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) by refusing to provide records requested. The VAC did provide partial records, but failed to provide the salaries of their employees, and contact information for their commissioners. We have asked them twice to provide all of the records requested, and there has been no response. They responded with partial records to the July 9 request and have not responded to the July 10 request. We must now decide whether to appeal to the Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) or file a lawsuit in St. Clair County Circuit Court – because permitting them to ignore the FOIA law is unacceptable.