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About Check CU
This non-profit site was established to aid in disseminating information about relevant issues in the Champaign-Urbana area. Transparency and access to public records is paramount to functioning government and since the public bodies within CU are failing in that regard, civilians must do the work. If you have files or documents that are of public interest, please consider sending them to Check CU so that we can make them publicly accessible.
-Christopher Hansen, Founder
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“Rantoul Fundamentally Misunderstands the Premise of FOIA Cases” – FOIA Attorney
On December 16th, 2021 Check CU Founder Christopher Hansen filed a lawsuit against the Village of Rantoul alleging violations of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Rantoul unlawfully denied access to copies of complaints against police officers, and...
Rantoul, Illinois Attempts to Conceal All Past Police Complaints
On January 21st, 2022 Check CU sent a public records request to Village of Rantoul Clerk and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer Janet Gray seeking police complaints from 2010 through 2018. Gray passed the request off to Village Attorney David Wesner who,...
Champaign, Illinois Human Relations Commission Fails to Meet for Six Months
Members of the public who tuned in to the Champaign Government Television livestream today were greeted with this screen The Champaign, Illinois Human Relations Commission (HRC) cancelled their monthly meeting for the six time today. Assuming they actually...
Zero Responses to $186K Request for “Community Safety Review” – Urbana, Illinois
Urbana, Illinois City Administrator Carol Mitten at the April 4th, 2022 City Council Committee of the Whole meeting Urbana, Illinois City Administrator Carol Mitten announced at a Council meeting tonight that the City had received zero bids in response to their...
Interim Police Chief, Deputy, Sued for False Imprisonment, Falsifying Evidence, Coercing Witnesses – Urbana, Illinois
New Interim Police Chief Richard Surles (bottom left), resigned Police Chief Bryant Seraphin (bottom center), and new Interim Deputy Police Chief Matthew Bain (bottom right) at the March 28th 2022 Urbana City Council meeting. On March 28th, the Urbana, Illinois City...
City Manager Explains Private Security for Downtown Area – Champaign, Illinois
On March 29th, Check CU published an article about the City of Champaign, Illinois hiring private security to patrol their downtown area. The City's Request for Proposals (RFP) describes issues such as noise, trash, loitering, fights, and shootings. On March...
“I Hate College Students” – Champaign, Illinois Police Sergeant Kaitlin Fisher
From left to right: Champaign Officer Dillon Holloway, Sgt. Kaitlin Fisher, University of Illinois Officer Kennedy Hartman Sergeant Kaitlin Fisher of the Champaign, Illinois Police Department recently expressed her feelings for a significant portion of the populace...
Body Camera Video of Red Lion Incident Police Investigation – Champaign, Illinois
The scene outside of the Red Lion bar in Champaign, Illinois shortly after an altercation between a bar employee and a patron resulted in "significant injuries" on March 5th, 2022. Check CU has acquired nearly an hour of police body camera video from the City of...
University of Illinois Police Complaint Procedures Violate State Law
The University of Illinois Police Department (UIPD) is dispensing complaint forms that quite clearly violate Illinois State law. The forms and related procedures contain numerous provisions that require the complainant to sign a sworn affidavit and have it...
AG: Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Violated Open Meetings Act, FOIA
Champaign-Urbana Public Health District HR Generalist Amy Roberts, Board Member Danielle Chynoweth, Jodie Ellis, Deputy Administrator Awais Vaid, CUPHD FOIA Officer Patricia Robertson, Treasurer Ron Fields, Board member & Secretary Kyle Patterson, Public Health...
Village of Rantoul Refuses to Disclose License Plate Camera Locations
One of more than a dozen automatic license plate reader (ALPR) installations in the Village of Rantoul, Illinois. The Village of Rantoul, Illinois has asserted for the second time that they are permitted to keep locations of automatic license plate readers a secret...
City of Champaign to Hire Private Security for Downtown Area
The City of Champaign, Illinois recently posted a Request for Proposals (RFP) on their website seeking private firms to patrol the downtown area during weekends and events. From the thirty-six page proposal document (provided in full below): 2.1 Services Summary: The...
Urbana, Illinois Council Unanimously Approves Interim Police Chief, Deputy Chief
New Interim Police Chief Richard Surles (bottom left), resigned Police Chief Bryant Seraphin (bottom center), and new Interim Deputy Police Chief Matthew Bain (bottom right) at the March 28th 2022 Urbana City Council meeting. Earlier this evening, the Urbana City...
Online Portal Allows Anonymous Police Complaints – Urbana, Illinois
Residents now have an easy to use tool for submitting complaints about Urbana, Illinois Police officers. The non-profit “Civilian Resource Site” at UrbanaPolice.org now has a web portal that can be used to submit complaints at any time, by any person, even...
Urbana Council Ignores Police Violations of Illinois State Law, FOP Contract
Urbana, Illinois City Council members have thus far ignored the statutory and contractual violations by their Police Department in regards to the handling of complaints against police officers. Check CU recently published two articles showing that the Urbana...
Urbana, Illinois Council Continues to Ignore Police TASER Review Violations
Urbana, Illinois Police Officer Colby Wright shoots an unarmed subject in the back with his TASER in a 2019 incident. The subject turned out to be an innocent bystander who was misidentified by Urbana Police. Deputy Chief Richard Surles argued that the TASER use was...
City of Champaign Advises Use of Force Training for Red Lion Bar Staff
The City of Champaign, Illinois is advising use of force training for bar staff who were involved in an incident which resulted in a young woman leaving in an ambulance on March 5th. Deputy City Manager Matt Roeschley, Lieutenant Andre Davis, and Assistant City...
City of Champaign to Host Police Chief “Meet the Finalists” Open House
The three finalists for the City of Champaign, Illinois Police Chief position: Angela Coonce, Timothy Tyler, Bryce Johnson Champaign, Illinois staff have invited the public to attend an open house on March 29th at 7pm to meet the three finalists chosen to compete for...
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