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Evanston city clerk outlines rising FOIA demand, digitization and public-financing pilot
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Evanston City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza and staff summarized the City Clerk’s Office functions and recent projects during a presentation at the Civic Center on Feb. 27, 2025.
Evanston City Clerk Stephanie Mendoza and staff summarized the City Clerk’s Office functions and recent projects during a presentation at the Civic Center on Feb. 27, 2025. The presentation covered vital records fees and revenue, a surge in Freedom of Information Act requests, the City’s ordinance codification work, a digitization initiative for historical records, a small-donor public-financing pilot, and student workforce and apprenticeship programs.
The presentation by Martin, a graduate student at Northwestern and data analytics apprentice in the clerk’s office, laid out core services: issuance of birth and death certificates, FOIA request processing, maintenance of the city code and ordinances, election services, management of boards,…
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