City Clerk Rodney Greene said Thursday the city might have acted “fraudulently” by denying a Freedom of Information Act request for a list of all residences under investigation of building code violations.
The request asked the city to apply the same standards it did in releasing to Northwestern last month a list of nearly 50 student residencies being investigated for that same reason.
“If the list was given to Northwestern, and a second person asked for that same list with the same criteria and it was not given to the requester, then that would be a fraudulent answer,” said Greene, whose office handles FOIA requests. “If one entity did receive it with no problems and another entity didn’t get it, then that’s a lie and a fraudulent