DEVELOPMENT IN COLLEGE OF DUPAGE LAWSUIT

Former College of DuPage board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton is trying to prevent conversations she surreptitiously recorded from being entered as evidence in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by former COD President Robert Breuder. An attorney for Hamilton this week filed a motion seeking a protective order to stop the taped conversations from being turned over to Breuder, who has requested them as part of his legal action. The motion says disclosing the recordings would expose Hamilton to criminal and civil liability. Recording a conversation without the consent of the others in it generally is against the law in Illinois. The legal fight over the secret recordings comes more than four years after Breuder claimed in a federal lawsuit that he was wrongfully fired. Breuder filed his lawsuit in October 2015, one day after being fired.