Bowie v. Evanston Community Consolidated School District No. 65

Plaintiffs, Cheryl Bowie, James Roberts and Vanessa Gray, filed suit for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief in the circuit court of Cook County against defendants, Evanston Community Consolidated School District No. 65 (district) and Eugene Mulcahy, the district superintendent (superintendent), pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 116, par. 201 et seq.).

Plaintiffs, parents of students attending the district’s schools, sought the disclosure of standardized California Achievement Test (test) scores for students from certain years, grades and…