Remember Ty Carlton?

By: Diane Benjamin Review the details here if you forgot: https://blnnews.com/2024/11/02/whats-the-real-ty-carlton-story/ . I looked the case up yesterday to see where it is. It looks like all the preliminary actions will be out of the way soon. The case was filed TWO YEARS ago this month. . The case pertains to employment discrimination. If you […]

What’s the real Ty Carlton story?

By: Diane Benjamin Remember this story? https://blnnews.com/2024/02/21/bloomington-police-sergeant-fired/ I filed more FOIA’s I didn’t write about. I got emails that said nothing, some pages were totally redacted. Some emails had the text redacted. I received text messages that were also hearvily redacted and didn’t say who was texting who. Re-reading them it appears Ty’s wife and […]

ACLU calls Bloomington Police racist without using the word

By: Diane Benjamin See this WEEK story: https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/09/07/idot-report-black-latinx-drivers-stopped-by-bloomington-police-disproportionately-higher-rate/ Quote: “McLean County has unfortunately had a history of disproportionally stopping people of color, so this is ongoing. What’s alarming is that the 2022 traffic data showed an uptick,” explains Karla Bailey-Smith, the Central Illinois Chapter of ACLU Illinois which covers McLean, DeWitt and Livingston Counties. I’m […]