FOIA Timeline Process & Disclosure Note

FOIA Timeline Process & Disclosure Note

A quick housekeeping note for readers, regulators, and the professionally curious:

While compiling and publishing the Illinois timeline, we observed and documented via screenshots and timestamps that multiple Illinois regulatory agencies, departments, universities, and law firms accessed and reviewed this material before issuing public responses, formal letters, or denials.

Those access logs matter.

They show who looked, when they looked, and what they looked at and in several cases, the timing aligns precisely with how narratives and positions later shifted.

So if you’re wondering why some results, responses, or conclusions appear deliberately paced rather than rushed, rest assured:

• This is not delay from laziness or lack of evidence

• This is intentional sequencing

• And yes, it is designed to prevent the replication of coordination or collusion tactics we’ve already seen play out in real time

In short:

We learned how the game was being played by watching who showed up to the table before anyone said a word.

Future releases and states will follow the same principle:

observe first, document second, publish last.

Thanks for your patience and for reading closely.

— F’nAround Media

P.S. We considered replicating this timeline disclosure in multiple states at once, but once you’ve seen the playbook, reruns get boring. All remaining TBA states will be added when the full package publishes.

Illinois is currently waiting on certain records to be unsealed, so the next published update lands in July.