Illinois Schools Fail to Disclose Thousands of Incidents
Across Illinois, school districts are failing to comply with an incident-reporting law that has been in effect since 1999, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune.
The law requires that the schools disclose drug, weapon and teacher assault incidents to the state in order to give the public a clear picture of crime at neighborhood schools. But thanks to lax oversight and no enforcement from the very state agencies that built it, thousands of incidents have gone unreported, the article says.