Illinois (ECWd) - The Illinois Department of Health and Family Services is now providing instruction on Unconscious Bias, Microaggression, Microinequities, Microinsults, Microassaults, and Microninvalidations. In promotion of the training, the director made a statement in her email to HFS personnel that clearly failed to recognize our history....
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Courtni Hays appeared in Edgar County Circuit Court today and entered into a negotiated plea on the charges of theft from the Edgar County Health Department where she was previously employed. According to the court docket: The case will be suspended after 24...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - This is an update from last week's article on the arrest and charging of Courtni Hays, former employee of the Edgar County Health Department. Hays was book in and out of the Edgar County Sheriff's Department on August 16, 2019. The only issue we...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Former Edgar County Health Department employee Courtni Hays was arrested under an August 16, 2019, warrant and charged with a Class 2 Felony for allegedly committing theft of between $10,000 and $100,000 from the Edgar County Health Department. Hays posted $500 Bond on...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A now-former employee, Courtni Hays, of the Edgar County Health Department is alleged to have stolen or otherwise misappropriated funds from the health department. She has since resigned, the Edgar County Sheriff's Department has completed its investigation, and information forwarded to Edgar County...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - According to recent tips, and an article by WTHI (here), Edgar County has been included in the "Hepatitis A outbreak" in Illinois. Tips to our hotline pointed to cases of Hep-A at the Edgar County Jail, which we have already submitted a FOIA...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Health Department has provided their report, including photos, on their inspection of B & J Restaurant in Paris, Illinois. We previously reported on this (B & J’s Restaurant: Customer Complained About Cockroaches, Got Banned From Restaurant) and said we would...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - According to a customer of B & J's restaurant (aka "The Track Shack" as it is also known due to its proximity to the railroad tracks), he complained to the Edgar County Health Department about seeing cockroaches while eating in B &J's Restaurant. The...
ECWd - A few months ago, we reported on what we called bribing public officials, with promises of financial "donations" should they sign agreements that basically forced them and future board members into speaking in favor of Wind Farms and never speaking or acting against them. Our...
Champaign, IL. (ECWd) - Amazing. Your tax dollars at work. It appears the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District decided to participate in the Pride Parade (2014 and 2015), which is fine if that is what they want to do. In order to participate in the parade, they decided it...
