HB2881, HB2882, HB2883, HB2885, HB2887, HB2890, and HB3515.
Why Are Democrats for the Illinois House Pushing to Weaken FOIA?Illinois politicians love secrecy, especially when they don’t want you to know what they’re doing.In a coordinated legislative push, Rep. Terra Costa Howard (D) and Janet Yang Rohr, CFA (D) introduced bills that make public records harder to access, government meetings less transparent, and FOIA requests slower, more expensive, and easier to deny.Here’s what they’re pushing:HB2881 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Increases FOIA fees, making it more expensive for the average citizen to access public records.HB2882 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Shields public-private contracts from FOIA, hiding how taxpayer money is spent.HB2883 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Expands police record exemptions, making it harder to access misconduct reports and wrongful conviction records.HB2885 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Broadens FOIA exemptions, giving government agencies more power to reject requests.HB2887 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Extends FOIA response times, delaying public access to government records.HB2890 (Terra Costa Howard, D) – Weakens the Open Meetings Act, reducing public notice of government decisions.HB3515 (Janet Yang Rohr, D) – Lets agencies label FOIA requests as “commercial” to impose high fees and deny records.See the pattern yet? These bills don’t expand transparency, they kill it.At the same time, this same party is pushing bills to track, categorize, and regulate disabled and homeschooled kids, expand state oversight over families, and strip parental rights.Let’s connect the dots:They don’t want you to know what public agencies are doing.They don’t want you to hold law enforcement accountable.They don’t want you to see how taxpayer money is being spent.They DO want full tracking, oversight, and control over children.Illinois politicians have spent more time fighting FOIA than protecting missing children. Why is that?If child welfare is really the priority, why are we seeing laws to track homeschoolers and special needs kids, but nothing about finding thousands of missing migrant children?Maybe there’s no connection. Maybe it’s just bad policy. But bad policy in the same direction always starts looking like intent.So, Terra Costa Howard and Janet Yang Rohr, why are you so desperate to hide what you’re doing? I wonder, does Morningstar benefit from classifying FOIA requests as “commercial”, or is this just a coincidence?I see a pattern, looks like a playbook. And I’m not looking away. I see what’s happening, and I’m not F'nAround anymore…
Why did the Democratic Party of Illinois, JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson, the City of Chicago, and the State of Illinois fight the federal government to stop them from finding and protecting missing migrant children, only to turn around and pass laws to track, regulate, and control Illinois’ own kids, especially homeschooled and disabled children? Patterns don’t lie. If child welfare was really the priority, why push HB1165, HB2827, HB2390, HB3376, HB2455, HB1783, and HB3111, bills that expand state power over parental rights while ignoring real child protection failures? Read this and ask yourself: Is this about safety, or is it about control? Is this how the Donner party felt when they ran out of meat? Idk but I’m just F'nAround, why don’t you read and see if our state is too… just with the wrong things…
We Need The Illinois Avenger, because Someone Needs to Protect Our Kids Since the Politicians Won’t
Joseph Phelan
F’nAround Co-Founder Doctor of Business Administration (Strategic Management & Marketing) Investigative Strategist Systems Mapping, Regulatory Exposure, Public Accountability, & Adversarial Analysis
March 19, 2025
In 2024, Illinois lost one of the Aunt Martha’s, a key child services provider (you should google it, or ask Pritzker, Madigan, Durbin, or Duckworth), in what the news barely covered. Then, in 2025, Homan and Trump vowed to find and protect all missing migrant children. So, what does Illinois do in response? Do they help locate those missing kids? Do they increase accountability for child welfare programs?
Nope. Instead, they pass a series of bills that put a stranglehold on disabled and homeschooled kids.
Now, I’m not saying there’s a connection, but come on, no one cared about tracking or controlling homeschoolers until the federal government started talking about finding all missing migrant children. And now Illinois Democrats suddenly want full tracking and control over disabled and homeschooled kids?
I don’t know, but if it quacks like a duck…
What’s Really Going On?
These bills aren’t about helping kids, they’re about control, surveillance, and eliminating educational freedom.
HB1165 – Lets school districts place disabled students in unapproved, unregulated facilities with no parental oversight.
HB2827 – Requires homeschool parents to register with the state, making non-compliance a truancy offense.
HB2390 – Changes special education funding in a way that could deny services to disabled students.
HB3376 – Expands bureaucratic oversight over IEP (Individualized Education Plan) evaluations, limiting parental say.
HB2455 – Expands state oversight of early childhood special education, but without adding any real support.
HB1783 – Forces language acquisition tracking on deaf and hard-of-hearing students, centralizing their data.
HB3111 – Forces students as young as 13 into special education meetings, whether they are ready or not.
See the Pattern?
Illinois is moving to a model where every child, homeschooled, public schooled, disabled, or hearing-impaired is entered into a state-tracked database.
This is about total compliance, not education.
They want every child’s location, learning status, disability status, medical records, and compliance with school attendance rules.
This isn’t just about public schools anymore; they’re coming for homeschooling and special education families too.
The Bigger Picture: What’s the Endgame?
This legislative push isn’t just about education reform, it’s about creating a framework for total government oversight of children.
Here’s what’s really happening:
1. Eliminating Educational Autonomy
• Homeschoolers must register (HB2827).
• Special education placements will be dictated by bureaucrats (HB1165).
• IEPs are standardized to remove parental discretion (HB3376).
2. Tying Education to Medical Compliance
• Homeschooled kids must submit proof of vaccination or religious exemptions (HB2827).
• Mandatory screenings for young special education students (HB2455).
3. Data Collection & Surveillance
• Homeschool families are tracked and categorized (HB2827).
• Hearing-impaired children’s language development is monitored (HB1783).
4. Criminalizing Non-Compliance
• Homeschool parents face truancy charges if they don’t comply (HB2827).
• Special education students can be placed in any facility the school chooses, without parental consent (HB1165).
5. Total Government Control Over Parental Rights
• Schools, not parents, decide where disabled kids go (HB1165).
• IEP meetings force students into participation whether they’re ready or not (HB3111).
• Homeschool families will have to “prove” they are educating their children (HB2827).
Why Now? Who’s Behind This?
Ask yourself: Why now? Why are these bills all hitting at the same time?
Who decided 2025 was the year that Illinois needed total oversight of children’s education?
The Politicians Behind This Power Grab:
• HB1165: Rep. Daniel Didech h (D)
• HB1783: Rep. Michelle Mussman (D)
• HB2390: Rep. Tracy Katz Muhl (D)
• HB2455: Rep. State Representative Maura Hirschauer r (D)
• HB3111: Rep. Daniel Didech (D)
• HB3376: Rep. Michelle Mussman (D), Rep. Michael Crawford (D)
• HB2827: Multiple Democratic sponsors
Illinois politicians, especially Democrats, are pushing these bills under the radar.
Coincidence? Or a strategic move to expand government control?
I’ll wait for them to explain.
So, tell us, Representatives, why now?
Why do you suddenly care so much about homeschooling and special education tracking?
Why do you need all this data on children?
Please. Enlighten us, because this pattern is looking mighty sketchy with how much we protest the federal government from finding and protecting kids and we are even getting sued over it. I mean what do I know I’m just F'nAround over here but at least it’s not with kids…