DOE EX REL. v. Chicago Bd. of Educ.

In this case we must decide whether section 4 — 102 of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Act) (745 ILCS 10/4 — 102 (West 2000)), extending immunity to a local government entity providing a police protection service, applies in the case of a school board furnishing an attendant on a bus transporting disabled students. We hold that it does not.

The guardian of a disabled minor sought damages in tort against the Chicago Board of Education (Board) and Laidlaw Transit, Inc., a chartered bus company, for injuries the ward sustained as the result of an assault by a…