Kopchar v. City of Chicago

PRESIDING JUSTICE TOOMIN

delivered the opinion of the court:

We are asked to determine whether section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 ILCS 140/7 (West 2006)) requires disclosure of the criteria or standards used to evaluate the physical abilities tests administered to firefighter applicants. We hold it does not. Plaintiff brought claims against the City of Chicago (City) and its outside testing administrator, Human Performance Systems, Inc. (HPS), alleging that HPS had misrepresented the results of plaintiffs performance in a firefighter’s physical abilities test that it…