By: Diane Benjamin

I’m starting with an easy part of the FOIA I finally received yesterday. Evidently no one in legal at the City of Bloomington knows tax returns for non-profits are public information. Every FOIA the City of Bloomington responds to is reviewed by the legal department. They shouldn’t complain about how much FOIA requests costs when they pay people to redact information that is readily available.

I knew some of what to expect in this FOIA, I didn’t expect the City to included a redacted version of PATH’s tax return. Included in the FOIA was 32 pages with most financial information redacted. Below are examples of 2 pages:

This link will show you what was redacted:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/370959387/202401369349302675/full

The picture on the right is page 10.

Redacting information the public is entitled to see makes me wonder what other information the City of Bloomington is hiding.

Maybe the information was redacted because of the problems at PATH. They lost 988 suicide prevention services and around 100 employees.

This is an excerpt from page 1. Revenue more than doubled in 1 year, the payroll exploded. Maybe the problems at PATH stemmed from leadership who were unable to adjust to the increases. That is for future stories.

Stay tuned!

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