[Opinion] Legal Evaluation Finds “No Legal Prohibitions” on Proposed Ordinance to Strengthen Chicago’s Inspector General

Legal Evaluation Finds “No Legal Prohibitions” on Proposed Ordinance to Strengthen Chicago’s Inspector General

In a legal opinion solicited by the Better Government Association, Chicago law firm Loevy + Loevy found no legal prohibitions to an ordinance proposed by City Council ethics chair Ald. Matt Martin and supported by Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.  Martin’s ordinance was introduced in response to an Office of Inspector General memo laying out three different methods by which Witzburg alleged the city’s law department had interfered in …