[Imc-web] hidden posts and cops

[Mike Lehman]

Please followup on comments to your articles. These were obviously 
hidden in error, due to the inflammatory accusations that were 
accompanied by vagueness and lack of detail. Why these were concerns is 
part of a larger discussion.

I keep hearing things that make me think there might be interest in 
having an active Web editing group again. I'd be as happy as anyone to 
pass this work along to a group that wants to be briefed on existing 
policy and problems and wants to update and maintain editorial policy.
Mike Lehman

On 1/31/2011 10:06 AM, Brian Dolinar wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just got back from a court hearing in the case of Lisa Staples, 
> ex-champaign cop who caught a second DUI.
> Looking back through my initial story on her first DUI I noticed two 
> comments that were hidden reporting the second incident:
>
> ---
> http://ucimc.org/content/police-reports-obtained-lisa-staples-dui-incident
>
> This lady just hit my sister.  She ran her off the road at 90 MPH and 
> caused my sisters jeep to flip 4 times.  ETM's said that my sister 
> would have been dead if she was in any other type of car. F her.
>
> Last night December 20, 2010  Staples hit a a car with two teenage 
> girls. We are fortunate that they were not serious hurt but the jeep 
> they were riding in flipped 4 times. Stapes was driving 80-90 miles an 
> hour while under the influence and struck the girls car.  They let her 
> go in the morning with $ 100 dollars and her drivers license 
> confiscated. When is she going to be stopped? When she kills your 
> loved one. Enough already.
> ---
>
> The incident was reported a week letter in the News-Gazette confirming 
> the second DUI.
> I understand the concern that we could be held libel, but I don't see 
> how we can get hit on anonymous comments.
> There was another report of another cop getting off on a DUI in the 
> last week that is entirely different from the Staples case.
> At first glance, it looks like both these reports have been truthful.
> I think we should be more trusting of our readers in the future.
> Looks like ucimc.org <http://ucimc.org> is becoming a posting board 
> for incidents with the police.
> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to track all these cases down.
>
> BD
> -- 
> Brian Dolinar, Ph..D.
> 303 W. Locust St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
> briandolinar at gmail.com <mailto:briandolinar at gmail.com>

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