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This category includes non-governmental groups in the United States whose stated mission includes monitoring branches of the state or federal governments for fraud, waste, abuse, corruption, mismanagement, illegal activity, campaign donor influence, abuse of authority, miscarriage of justice, and so forth. Groups whose primary mission is one of ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified 334 militia groups at their peak in 2011. It identified 276 in 2015, up from 202 in 2014. [1] In 2016, the SPLC identified a total of 165 armed militia groups within the United States. [2] [3]
The BGA maintains an Illinois Public Salaries Database, which allows the public to research the compensation for employees in all levels of state government. The BGA submitted nearly 1,000 Freedom of Information Act requests to update the database in 2020. The database separates bonus pay and overtime from base salaries, and also allows users ...
The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a ...
Nonprofits and advocacy groups sent a letter to brands like Amazon, Coca-Cola Co. and HBO telling them they have "a moral and civic obligation" to act.
A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of "woke ideologues" for Department of Defense secretary designee Pete Hegseth to purge should he overcome multiple scandals and become the ...
OpenTheBooks.com is an American nonprofit organization based in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Illinois.It describes itself as a transparency group devoted to posting online all the disclosed spending of every level of government across the United States. [1]
The Chicago-based watchdog group Better Government Association criticized the practice of maintaining uncertified auxiliary police officers in Illinois and nationwide, writing, following a joint investigation in 2019 with WMAQ-TV: "Most of the time, this army of under-trained cops works without incident in low-risk tasks such as directing ...