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 […]
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 […]
