La Grange D102 Officials Argued Behind Closed Doors - La Grange, IL - Under pressure, the board released a 2-year-old closed session recording. It was about whether an official had a conflict of interest.
UpdatedWed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:00 am CT
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A La Grange School District 102 nurse created a spreadsheet on districts interested in saliva testing. The information was given to school board member Ed Campbell, whose company provides such a service. (Shutterstock)
LA GRANGE, IL A La Grange School District 102 employee created a spreadsheet of leads for the school board s vice president, Ed Campbell, who started a saliva testing program.
On Tuesday, the district provided the spreadsheet in response to a Patch request for such documents created by nurse Kelli Kalata. The list included the names of school districts where interest in saliva testing had been shown.
UpdatedFri, May 28, 2021 at 9:06 am CT
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Ed Campbell, vice president of the La Grange School District 102 board, got information from a school nurse about other districts interested in setting up coronavirus testing programs, another board member says. (Shutterstock)
LA GRANGE PARK, IL A school nurse in La Grange School District 102 passed leads for business opportunities to a school board member earlier this school year, another board member said Thursday.
During a board meeting, member Brian Anderson said other school districts called the nurse seeking more information about the coronavirus surveillance testing program at District 102. Those inquiries were referred to the board s vice president, Ed Campbell, who started a business in mid-September to conduct testing for other districts.
UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 11:06 am CT
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The main office for SafeGuard Surveillance LLC is at 9300 W. Ogden Ave. in Brookfield, , according to secretary of state s records. Ed Campbell, a La Grange School District 102 board member, is a 33 percent owner. (Google Maps)
LA GRANGE, IL La Grange School District 102 board members Ed Campbell and Bessie Boyd agree on one thing: He has received no money from the district for saliva surveillance testing for the coronavirus.
But they sharply disagree on whether he has used his status as a board member to build his business for surveillance testing with other suburban school districts.
UpdatedWed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:05 pm CT
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SafeGuard Surveillance owner Ed Campbell wants to know what s driving Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration to block school districts from being reimbursed through federal COVID-19 relief funding for using his company s coronavirus surveillance testing. (Provided by SafeGuard Surveillance)
CHICAGO This story about coronavirus saliva tests might make you mad enough to spit.
It boils down to this question: Is Gov. J.B. Pritzker s administration trying to rig the market for coronavirus testing in public schools to favor University of Illinois budding COVID-19 testing operation, Shield Illinois?
That s difficult to answer, apparently.
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Pritzker s administration didn t respond to queries related to the very interesting timing, as one school district administrator put it, of a policy change on surveillance testing in schools. The change effectively made districts ineligible for reimbursement through federal coronavirus r