Submitting a complaint to the CPS Office of Inspector General
The Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General (OIG) is the independent oversight body for Chicago’s approximately 650 public, contract and charter schools. The OIG investigates allegations of waste, fraud, financial mismanagement and adult-on-student sexual misconduct by CPS staff, vendors, volunteers and charter school employees.
To report a complaint to the CPS OIG, please direct your message to either the General Investigations Unit (GIU) or the Sexual Allegations Unit (SAU). This page details our online submission process; if preferred, you may contact the OIG by telephone, email or regular mail.
If this is an emergency, please contact 911.
To report a complaint to the CPS OIG, please direct your message to either the General Investigations Unit (GIU) or the Sexual Allegations Unit (SAU). This page details our online submission process; if preferred, you may contact the OIG by telephone, email or regular mail.
If this is an emergency, please contact 911.
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The GIU investigates allegations of fraud, theft, wastefulness and other wrongdoing by CPS employees, volunteers and vendors that do business with Chicago Public Schools.
The OIG does not typically investigate complaints about:
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The SAU investigates complaints regarding allegations of adult-to-student sexual misconduct involving an adult affiliated with CPS (including employees, vendors and volunteers) and a CPS student and/or a minor. This includes allegations of inappropriate behaviors that are not implicitly sexual in nature, such as texting or giving gifts to students, or other conduct that makes students uncomfortable and violates the professional boundaries mandated by Chicago Public Schools. For more information on how complaints are processed and investigated by the SAU, please see the SAU Process page.
Please note: all complaints regarding student-to-student and adult-to-adult sexual misconduct should be directed to the Office of Student Protections and Title IX (OSP). The OIG operates independently of OSP; however, all complaints of adult-to-student sexual misconduct received by the OIG are shared with OSP as required by law. |
For CPS staff members and other mandated reporters, filing a complaint with the OIG, including anonymous complaints, does not satisfy any mandatory reporter obligations that may apply. See the CPS Mandated Reporting Policy (“A mandated reporter who has reasonable cause to believe that a child known to the reporter in the reporter’s official capacity may have been abused or neglected is required to immediately call the DCFS Hotline at 1-800-252-2873 (1-800-25-ABUSE).”), the "Mandatory Procedure for Reporting a Complaint" protocol outlined in the OSP Procedure Manual, and the CPS Reporting of Child Abuse, Neglect and Inappropriate Relations Between Adults and Students Policy (“An anonymous report [to DCFS and/or CPS] does not satisfy an employee’s [reporting] obligations.”).