Remember Adam Stock and Stephen Castleman? They’re the Central Management Services employees who helped themselves to a truckload of state-owned chairs from the state fairgrounds shortly before Christmas last year and got busted (“Take a seat,” April 2, 2015). Castleman said that he was having a party at his house and needed to borrow some chairs, and his brethren in the union backed him by saying that state employees often borrow, even take for keeps, state-owned equipment from the fairgrounds. Figuring out just what happened wasn’t easy, as the state initially refused to make public any records in the case. Only after Illinois Times pointed out that the law says that the public has a right to know about such things did the state release records documenting the caper. But the state refused to reveal how Stock and Castleman were punished, saying that the men had fi led grievances that needed to run their course before anyone could know what sanctions were handed down. So, we submitted a second records request recently. Turns out that the union withdrew the grievances one week after the story of the chair heist was published. It appears that both men received 17-day suspensions.