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April 20, 2024

Edgar County State’s Attorney

EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - Edgar County is number 3:  with 31.42 registered sex offenders per 10,000 people. From REBOOTIllinois.com: Sex offenders per capita by county in Illinois Caitlin Wilson Aug 28, 2014 Read more: http://www.rebootillinois.com/2014/08/28/top-lists/caitlinwilson/sex-offenders-per-capita-county-illinois/24085/#ixzz3BoUf9S6H The state of Illinois created the sex offender registry to help citizens monitor where people convicted of...

EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Board held a special meeting today and as expected, Mike Heltsley led the charge to ensure Burgin and Hopper didn't have to face the arbitrator for the set-off determination by making the motion to pass the settlement for both...

PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In an effort to mitigate the financial liability to Edgar County taxpayers and provide for an equitable solution to the remaining issue of compensation, the attorney for the Edgar County Sheriff has provided Roger Hopper with an opportunity to justify any claims...

IL. SUPREME COURT (ECWd) - In an opinion filed on May 22, 2014, the Illinois Supreme Court decided the case of Nelson v. Kendall County. This determination came as we expected it would: That State's Attorneys are "public bodies" and are subject to the Freedom Of...

MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) - This is a common situation that we discover time and time again in nearly every public body we look at. We saw this in: -DeWitt County Probation Office (here), -Arcola Township (here), -Edgar County Housing Authority (here), -Edgar County ETSB, -Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department, -Effingham County Public Health Department, -East...

PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Dee Burgin, "the gift that keeps on giving", a disgraced former Deputy Sheriff, found guilty in federal court of civil rights violations on a young woman, former ambulance service owner that got away with not paying the $100,000 sale price to the...

PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - As promised in this article (click here), we finally received the FOIA request back from the Illinois State Police. It turns out there was an investigation into allegations that a corrections officer traded prescription drugs for sex. The Edgar County Sheriff Department contact the...

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