You may remember that I’ve been trying to get information about the suicide notes that Phil Pagano’s suicide notes.

I requested that McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren send me a copy of Pagano’s signature on one of the notes that he left for his family and any one word containing at least four letters.

You can speculate on why I might think those two elements might be of significance.

October 14th Assistant Public Access Counselor Matthew M. Sebek wrote Nygren’s Freedom of Information Officer Jan Weech a letter requesting that the Sheriff’s “Department provide us with a further explanation of its basis for withholding the subject record excerpts as exempt under Section 7(1)(c).”

You can read the entire letter below (click to enlarge):