[Peace] AWARE Agenda, May 14, 2006

[John W.]

At 03:02 PM 5/14/2006, Brian Dolinar wrote:

>Don't forget...
>
>Community Courty Watch demonstration Wednesday, May 17 at 1 p.m.
>
>Tell the police no more intimidation!
>
>No more illegal search and seizures!
>
>In August 2004, Patrick Thompson and Martell Miller were charged with 
>Class X felony eavesdropping. A grassroots movement rallied to put a new 
>State's Attorney into office, Julia Reitz, who made this a campaign issue 
>and dropped the eavesdropping charges when she entered office.
>
>Yet 3 individuals have come to Community Court Watch with allegations that 
>police have threatened them with Class X felony eavesdropping and have 
>confiscated their personal property.
>
>This on Julia Reitz's watch.
>
>Police know that the Class X felony eavesdropping charges are bogus.
>These threats are being used to justify illegal search and seizure.
>They are only enforced on those who monitor police behavior.
>
>It has been two years since Urbana citizens were promised a Police Review 
>Board.
>Court Watch demands to see the formation of an independent oversight board.
>We are also pursuing a Congressional bill to protect cop watch videotaping 
>and recording.
>
>See you Wednesday, BD



You are AWARE, I trust, that Mayor Prussing appointed an official task 
force that has been meeting for the past 6 months or so for the purpose of 
hammering out a proposal for a Citizen Police Review Board?  Esther Patt is 
the chair of the task force.  Ricky Baldwin is another good person to talk 
to about it, since he's on the task force and on our Coalition for Citizen 
Police Review.

And are you AWARE that Mayor Prussing and several members of the task force 
went down to Florida in January or February, I think it was, for the annual 
meeting of NACOLE (the National Association for Citizen Oversight of Law 
Enforcement, I think the acronym stands for)?

A CPRB is definitely in the planning, at least for Urbana.  It simply 
remains for the process to play itself out.  Some of us have been working 
on this since the summer of 2001, and some longer than that.  Your support 
- the support of the community - is and will be essential.  But Urbana 
citizens were never, to my knowledge, "promised" a citizen police review 
board.  It involves negotiation among a number of interested parties, which 
is ongoing.

John Wason



>On 5/14/06, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks so much to those who were most instrumental in
>making Anna Baltzers's visit such a success: the
>Kruses, Storms, and Estabrooks, as well as all who
>made her feel welcomed in our community.
>
>DG
>
>1. News of the Week (10 minutes)
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>2. Introductions (5 minutes)
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>3. New Ideas: (15 minutes)
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>4. Working Groups: (30 minutes)
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>Finances
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>Farmers Market
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>MAIN Event
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>AWARE Presents
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>Church Presence
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>5. Last Week's Events (15 minutes for 5 and 6)
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>AWARE Presents
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>Cable Access Channel - Champaign City Council
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>6. Upcoming Events
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>Champaign City Council - CU Smokefree
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>
>
>--
>Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
>204 S. Lynn St.
>Champaign, IL 61820
><mailto:briandolinar at gmail.com>briandolinar at gmail.com
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