Jerry's Journal

Genius v. County of Cook, 2011 IL 110239 (June 16, 2011).

The Cook County Employee Appeals Board possessed jurisdiction to discharge plaintiff from his position as a police officer with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, regardless of whether the employee’s department head had actually discharged him or had merely recommended discharge, because any such purported defect was merely a matter of error which did not go to the board’s jurisdiction as an administrative agency.

Tags: Public Employment, Termination