Tag: Federal Lawsuit

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McLean County sued in Federal Court.

By: Diane benjamin McLean isn’t the only County, they are one of 62 being sued for selling property seized for non-payment of property taxes. The Edgar County Watchdogs reported the story: https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/06/62-counties-clerks-and-treasures-named-in-lawusit-filed-in-federal-court-alleged-property-tax-sale-violations “The Fifth Amendment to the United State Constitution bars the State of Illinois, or any county therein, from seizing property from its owners […]

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Two officers sued along with the Town of Normal in Federal Court

By: Diane Benjamin The lawsuit was filed in February of this year. On August 26th a Federal judge denied the motion to dismiss. . The video below details the case. The short version is the Plaintiff’s mother who lives in Normal called both the police and her son because she felt in danger from a […]

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Preventing clean elections in Illinois

FYI: Facebook removed this story too. Russians aren’t interfering in elections, Facebook is! By: Diane Benjamin https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/662192750-unions-can-defend-vs-attempts-to-force-il-to-clean-up-voter-rolls-judge-says Illinois elections are fair? Removing ineligible voters is essential to at least appear fair. Background excepts from the story: Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch filed suit in March in Chicago federal court, claiming Illinois state and county election authorities have […]

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Remember this Federal Lawsuit?

By: Diane Benjamin A copy of the lawsuit is in that story. It alleges: The case revolves around a former employee – Kristen Alferink. Don Knapp and Jason Chambers were named in the suit because they both supervised the office. The case was filed in September of 2019. It was unceremoniously settled last December. Approval […]

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Normal needs a PSCRB

By: Diane Benjamin Thankfully Bloomington’s Monday meeting was short. Most of it was the annual report of the Public Safety and Community Relations Board. The Board only had 3 cases to review for the entire year. In one case the Board made a policy recommendation the police did adopt but in all three cases the […]

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Just something I found

By:  Diane Benjamin Readers should be well aware by now that what government talks about in Executive Session remains a secret – in Bloomington’s case for a decade or more.  It’s only a secret because they want it to be a secret – I’m talking about things like City Manager evaluations. The Open Meetings Act […]