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By Illinois Review

A Lake County Judge has ordered Illinois-based publishing company Local Government Information Services (LGIS) to remove sensitive voter data from their websites that was illegally published and includes the names and home addresses of police officers, domestic violence and human trafficking victims.

LGIS publishes content for a select group of conservative political candidates – information oftentimes submitted by the candidate and not a reporter and published in newspapers to make it appear as if the information is coming from a reliable and legitimate news source. Publications such as the “Chicago City Wire,” the “Will County Gazette” and the “DuPage Policy Journal” are all owned and operated by LGIS.

In 2016, Dan Proft – now a Florida-based Chicago radio show host, launched LGIS – an Illinois-based for-profit publication company at the same time he was running the Liberty Principles PAC – and as records reveal, would use the money from his own PAC to pay his own publication company to write favorable stories about candidates he was supporting. In 2019, Proft shut down the PAC – which was funded by billionaire Richard Uihlein who had donated nearly $18 million. In 2016, the Illinois State Board of Elections found illegal coordination between the PAC and the political candidates that they were supporting.

In 2020, Proft transitioned day-to-day operations of LGIS over to his best friend and business partner Brian Timpone, who now serves as LGIS’ president. In 2012, Timpone was forced to shut down his company Journatic LLC just three months into his partnership with the Chicago Tribune after the Tribune’s partnership with Timpone became “an embarrassment after ethical breaches, including false bylines, plagiarism and fake quotations, were discovered.”

On Friday, a Lake County Judge ordered Timpone to remove personal information of voters that LGIS published illegally that disclosed the names and home addresses of hundreds of thousands of individuals including police officers, domestic abuse and human trafficking victims – making the point that the disclosures put the individuals in danger and open them up to identity theft.

The judge gave LGIS until 5 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 2024 to comply with the court order.

Check the full article for an important update about the status of LGIS' compliance with the court order.